An ache perforates veins deep <br />Blood cold as moods of night <br />tears fall on food I eat <br />tears fall on food withered <br />Filled platters, piled up trash bins <br />Plastic flash cards' redeemed poise <br />Classy high end festive foyers <br />Dim lit reckless long end revelry <br />Minds relaxed on refined comforts <br />jaded dried leaves spread apart <br />life shriveled, cry for food <br />hear my heart from unknown souls <br />bracing measures count on scales <br />reversed ravage Friday flings <br />cried my mind on third world famine <br />poor souls' handcuffed hunger <br />Mute, deaf, dumb hunger <br />Strange unknown silent anguish.... <br />Genuine thud on unarmed door steps <br />Benign heart you listen please.... <br />Don’t, don’t waste fuel of life <br /> <br /> <br />Dear reader friends, <br /> <br />All over the world humans throw food to trash boxes, listen the cries of hunger, please don’t waste food, it is precious... Millions are dying in the third world of hunger. <br /> <br />A fresh estimate from the ministry of food processing says a whopping Rs 58,000 crore (Rs 580 billion) worth of agriculture food items get wasted in India every year resulting artificial demand, price hike and food shortage. People below poverty line are the sufferers. <br />Private consulting firm Rabo India Finance has prepared the food wastage report and presented it to the ministry.Quoting from the report, Minister of State for Food Processing told the Parliament that the fact that such a huge quantity of food items goes as waste in the country is an eye-opener.<br /><br />Rema Prasanaa<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mute-hunger/
