Poverty Ails

Clamor for food security prevails
midst scarcity of basic necessity
such confronts the world; oh, poverty ails.

Though there’s great Source, supplies demand high sales 
inequality reigns, buttressed by greed’s certainty
clamor for food security prevails.
 
Hear the sick in their bad health pity wails
afflicted with insufficiency’s futility
such confronts the world; oh, poverty ails.

While technology upgrades production scales
rice shortage remains a global verity
clamor for food security prevails.

Then population-explosion issue hails 
malnutrition problem along infant mortality 
such confronts the world; oh, poverty ails.

Let’s reach-out with care, since charity* never fails
trusting God to end this sad reality: 
clamor for food security prevails
such confronts the world; oh, poverty ails.

*1Corinthians 13:8 Charity never faileth…

April 24, 2021
10th place, "A MAJOR WORLD PROBLEM" Villanelle Poetry Premier Contest
Sponsored by L MILTON HANKINS; judged on 5/9/2021.

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Marilene Evans

May 11, 2021 at 7:06 AM

Congratulations. This is where you see the have and the have nots. The haves wasting food and some even flaunting all the materialism they have, when some are dying with lack of basic needs.

Sam Kauffman

May 10, 2021 at 10:45 AM

God's charity is surely beyond anything we can understand and we all benefit from it. I like the foundation for your poem. When we start to try to understand God's charity, God opens our eyes to the ways we can live in it! Congratulations on your win!