Our mother earth gives <br />For one good grain sown <br />Hundreds of fresh grains <br />For our food in return. <br /> <br />How many sweet fruits <br />For a life time she gives <br />For one seed she takes <br />As one tree it grows? <br /> <br />Any animal on the land <br />Or any bird on the air <br />For its morrow's food <br />Does it take all the care? <br /> <br />For the food on the ground <br />How a crow makes a sound <br />Of 'caw' to call crows around <br />Just to share what it found? <br /> <br />When big cooked rice balls <br />An elephant in its mouth takes <br />A part of it on the floor spills <br />That feeds hundreds of ants. <br /> <br />But when a have on this earth <br />For his self, the food he hoards, <br />Doesn't the have-not's mouth <br />Go unfed for days countless? <br /> <br />The food in a pompous feast <br />A junk of it goes as rubbish. <br />If this goes to the poor atleast <br />Will that not fulfill God's wish? <br /> <br />The worst pain in the world <br />Is what the hunger gives <br />But this can be solved <br />If all follow the crows.<br /><br />Rajaram Ramachandran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hunger-the-pang/
