TV screens show us
the anguish
The anguish of
mothers losing their young
Women too poor to
feed their kids
So they have to watch
them die
Men have no work to
do
Because the fields
are bare
There is no food to
carry home
Because a famine has struck
Many are dying from a
treatable disease
But they have to
suffer cos drugs aren’t cheap
And money is not
available
So people are left to
die
It’s a fallen world
we inhabit
The poor suffer
because they are poor
While the rich just
sit back and watch
We should get up off
our knees
Lord make people get
off their knees, please
Some people have done
so
But where are they
now
When it really
matters
Some people got off
their knees
They have now
disappeared
A day of festivities
was arranged
To make people sit up
and listen
People saw the point
Realised something
needed to be done
But then famine
struck
Help was truly
needed, but people faded
Those stars shone for
one day
But now the light has
gone
Disappeared from the
picture
Just when disaster
struck
Was it all a waste of
time?
Performing on that
day
Or are those faded
stars going to shine bright again
In this time of
hunger and death
Jo Anne Kennedy
August 2005 ©
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