Witnesses To Tears

We have been shot And left to die! Will let us? But you wonder ''Who shot them?'' Yes, we have been shot Shot! By Poverty!!! It shot us! It is shooting us! Will you let it Shoot and kill us? It is a robber It came Suddenly, Like the Christ's coming Unannounced! Nay, it never left After then! Now, We are bleeding From its shots! Clothless Foodless Homeless Joyless Smileless Laughless And, Hopeless!!! We are Licking our wounds Chewing cuds Drinking our own blood Oozing from our wounds! So we ask again Will you watch us die? Will you rescue us? Or Will you say Rot with your killer? We wait Though we wait not!