Hunger lurks down the streets of Botany Bay; <br />The lonely child famished and peckish cries for food <br />None notices the child, for they’re preoccupied with the travesty of justice in Botany Bay <br />An observant vagabond pays heed to the child, and shares the lone piece of bread <br />The child ecstatic with what’s it got, runs to its hovel <br />The hovel where it was raised, is full of abjection and misery <br />The child runs to its mother, gives the lone piece of bread <br />The mother in tears, tears up the piece of bread <br />Gives a piece to the child to satiate its hunger <br />Keeps the other piece for the other slumbering child <br />For such is the love of the mother, careless about her own hunger <br />Gets lost in the agony of doubt, of how she will raise her children <br />In this world full of misery and pain.<br /><br />Deepak Hiremath<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hunger-in-botany-bay/
