After watching the children on the news with their eyelids stuck to together with minor infections and yet now threatens their sight because of a lack of basic antibiotics, just made me angry.


A Time To Act.

I see their eyes, and hear their cries
It breaks my aching heart
I hear their plea's,by right decree's
They are not a race apart

They need our help, yet ask it not
The creeping cold will kill
they huddle round their camp fires
While frostbite steals their will

Natures might will break them
Its taken all their homes
Bereft of all the basics
To be reduced to skin and bones

All the nations should now combine
To halt this creeping death
With food and clothes, and foreign aid
To release them from distress

The western world and leaders
Should get their act together
We have the wealth, to restore their health
Even if we cannot stop the weather.



Poetry by penfold18
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Written on 2006-01-18 at 13:15

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Peter
really good!!
it makes one think about whats really going on in the world, I like the way you present it to the writers, and your right it's clearly a time to act...
2006-01-23


Veld Cooper
I couldn't agree more and cannot believe that after all this time, people are being allowed to suffer like this.
2006-01-20