by Ginger Betzer

Created on: November 04, 2009   Last Updated: January 19, 2011

"Street children"

Orphaned, hungry alone,

they ravage the garbage

Pillar through trash cans and waste,

Looking for one morsel, one bite

To hold them through the night

and ease the gnawing hunger and pain.

My brother has seen them,

He's been there....and watched the hunger

Witnessed the pain.

And now he shares it with us....recorded live.

We watch

     armed with soda's and pizza,

and we eat till our stomach's ache......

                  and our soul sift through trash trying to find one morsel of our own humanity

                  holding onto that fleeting moment when we actually feel their pain.... and....

                              going............going.............gone.

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