Wednesday 11 July 2012

Drought: A poem

Earth, biscuit baked
Fissured, cracked

Sweat dried wrinkles
On the young aged
Listlessly standing
Hopelessly staring
At drought-blotted pools

In mothers' arms
Babies die
Small, still hands
Clutching still
Useless flesh
Breasts of a Child Mary
Who can feed no more




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