What is poverty?

What is poverty?

Sometimes I cry when I’m alone

These tears I cry are bitter and warm

I cry because my heart is broken inside

I cry because I find it hard to carry on.

If I had an ear to confide in I would cry on

The world moves so fast and it would rather pass by

than stop and see what makes one cry so painful

In the midst of my calamity all my hope

Is gone

We see them in t.v. wearing expensive suits

with beautiful sharp nosed shoes

-proclaiming poverty

But they can’t even define it

Having lot of hunger and having no foods

Not having spare clothes- take a bath that’s poverty.

- take a bath that’s poverty.

Yes needing for shelter but not having one

Child is sick but the parents cannot afford to buy treatment.

Indeed sitting with umbrella on a wedding bed during showering nights

An ill deserted mother selling her child, wishing it will survive- that’s poverty

A defeated and desperate mother poisoning and killing a child

Sharing the same water with cows and donkeys

Thoughtful mother, two mouthfuls rice and three children

That’s poverty

Like David said “We lift up our eyes

To the mountains, where our help comes from”

Nobody is left but only you, God

Be our prayer as we proclaim ‘LET IT BE’

Let the hand that greets be the hand that feeds

Let the hand of salvation be the hand that ends starvation

Let those who can’t see me have time to feed me

Let all who wake up to find work, see what life is worth

Let every hand of a Christian touch a hungry child

Deeper

Let my soul rest in a place where there is peace,

Love, joy and happiness

Pogiso