Conscience

Questions unanswered,
Love is but a past memory,
A lone heart bereft.

A mother's child cries,
Famine engulfs its small form,
Life seeps slowly away.

So lucky are we,
We have food in abundance,
And lives truly blest.

Our hardship self made,
We don't rely upon aid,
We live in the west.

So when we complain,
We should remember the pain,
Of unfortunates.

Perhaps then we'll think,
Our own needs are but trifles,
And do not compare.

For heaven awaits,
The hungry stand at her gates,
Soaked in mourning tears.

7/06/02 - serenex

Thank you for letting me use this.  It says so much.

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