Innocent Children Are the Largest Victims

No blood would ooze out if cut by blade No flesh below to sink, nothing inside shakes Bare bones protruding here and there like spikes Vacant look in the eyes Yet the body breathes and survives; Skeleton like children of Somalia, one of the African tribes. Somalia carries the most pathetic tableau in the world stage; Three fourth of its children below two are anaemic And large numbers are stunted below five years in age Yet, each mother can’t resist giving birth to six, seven children though sick! High temperature, polluted water, inadequate housing and sanitation Poor infrastructure added to their plight makes the poor Africans Chased by the changed climate and the natural calamities Fighting among themselves, vulnerable to many a tropical disease Some of them are obese too who wait for more ways to suffer; Poor healthcare system compelling them to incur Huge out of pocket expenses pushing millions of Africans To the path of poverty and indignity, mostly among the Nigerians; Paucity of doctors and health centres add salt to their wounds As some age old dreadful superstitions surround. Aju Mukhopadhyay, 2018