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Your blind to My Plight

I am hungry
dirty
in pain
can't see
for the dirt
 in my face
and yet
i fight.
I fight 
for food
to breathe
to somehow
fill the concave
below my lungs
to take a step
for the dirty
 children
behind me 
in my mud hut
third world living
nothing at all like it
this is real life
wake up

      ~written because of the awakening i had going to visit my family in Haiti
     nothing hurt me more than seeing the friend of my seven year old cousin 
    leaving their house after asking for a plastic bag to go beg elsewhere

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  1. Date: 5/17/2011 11:34:00 AM

    An outstanding and very moving write, thanks for sharing this and thanks for your comments. Alexa

  1. Date: 4/8/2011 3:26:00 PM

    a very moving and touching piece.