UNICEF

 

 

     It’s a day today,

Just like any other day!

     We toil we’re paid

And pay our way

As life ceaselessly moving –

Incessantly badgering

Keeps all in ways of conformity

And there; we hasten a quarrel

That life, is not living

If living is only to work.

 

     Granted, are the little choices

We have as selfishly,

We’re watching time

For self-development needs,

Unaware while awake or at sleep

Of the many die-ing before living,

Die-ing before grown into adults

Of Being.

 

     Needs, are not so far away,

Just a few selfless hours by flight

Within the same Earth we all share,

     For children go hungry

     Maladies present death yet

Many have cures, and born already

Diseased are children, cursed by

The worst insult upon humanities world,

     Still, we’re searching for bargains

As weekend shoppers at play,

While UNICEF tally figures that shock.

 

     Today is a day just of any other day,

But today I helped build a school,

Gave medicine to those – born HIV,

And twenty-fifteen’s not that far away,

Where Mothers can give birth freely

Without torture of guilt,

     And though we as British Public give

What we can,

Are we sure the pennies we spare

Fall upon the right place?

 

     Today is a day just like any other day,

But difference can be made with UNICEF in mind –

And I’ll keep it there just for a while -

Keep UNICEF in mind

Every day that I’m here,

And though my own choice be little

In all that I am,

     Many, of the World’s children; have none!

 

Michael J Waite 26^th January 2012.