The poor <br />The homeless <br />The mother <br />The father <br />The son <br />The daughter <br />One by one <br />Died of hunger <br /> <br />The aunt <br />The uncle <br />The niece <br />The cousin <br />Followed them later <br /> <br />Oh! Poverty <br />Killing all the makers of history <br />Will you and I live to see <br />Poverty being history? <br /> <br />June 5,2005<br /><br />Konjit Berhane<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poverty/