What the doctor told me
Doctor don’t be a tease
Can you give my soul ache ease?
Read his answer please.
Counting ten million
Refugees fleeing famine
War and disease
Forgotten sisters,
Brothers from your family tree
They are not some other!
Plucks at the heartstrings?
Can possibly do something?
My prescription’s here
To save guilty tears
Donations are entrusted
To Médecins Sans Frontières
Cheques and postal orders
You may safely forward to
Doctors Without Borders
Cheaper than snakeoil!
Works better than water cures
Quicker than a sneeze
the spectrum of hunger
the child, eight, young girl
in a new pink outfit
sequined skirt
frilled shirt
beautiful luscious blond hair
shiny and soft to the touch
pale, delicate skin
bright pink lips and white crooked smile
holds her teddy bear
clutching its brown matted curls
"Mommy, I'm starving"
she whines drawing out the r sound
loudly exclaiming for all to hear
listening, a child next to her, a young boy
in tattered, ruffled clothes
mud stained blue pants
hole filled formerly white shirt
dark hair with hints of brown dirt at the tips
dusty to the touch
broad lanky shoulders and a
worn down face with
dry white chapped lips
his skinny older face
covered with wrinkles and
aged too quickly
he stares blankly at the little girl
next to him
and softly utters
"me too."
How long until we believe? Until we care?
Must the world flood? Melt? Self-destruct? What will it take to make us think "Hey, yeah, maybe there is something to that whole climate change mumbo jumbo after all"? Must the earth decline into a barren, scorched wasteland resembling Hollywood's vision of the apocalypse? Must aliens arrive, take one look around and say "damn, man, this shit is fucked up" and immediately leave before we realize that damn, man, this shit is fucked up? Must sea creatures take over the world via the ocean (there's only one, since it covers every inch of the earth, now) and put all the land animals in tanks and have us perform tricks at LandWorld (tm) before we think to do anything about it?
@DavidMark