<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Better Dead than Alive!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A vulture sits behind a little boy, <br>Who squats for ‘Nature Calls’ amidst a field-<br>A village practice (without safe toilets) , <br>And wonders if the kid’s alive or dead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mal-nourished grossly, looking ‘skin and bones’, <br>The child appears so sick, with weakened frame; <br>He struggles at defecation at noon! <br>The scorching summer sun adds to his woes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A snake lies curled around the neck of boy! <br>The child looks blue as if bitten by it; <br>His naked body looks so very frail; <br>One wonders if he will complete his task.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The vulture could have mistaken the boy<br>For some kind of a beast about to die; <br>It waits to peck the frame if motionless; <br>’Tis all the same if boy is live or dead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such ghastly scenes are rife in poor countries, <br>Whose villages are poverty-stricken; <br>Where illiteracy, lack of hygiene, <br>Lack of good food- affects most of their young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While affluence afills the posh cities, <br>Stark-nakedness stigmatizes suburbs; <br>How does a nation boast of great progress, <br>When kids by millions stay ravished and sick? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it man-made or scourge of wrath of Gods? <br>Blame ourselves for this sad state of affairs; <br>When ‘Big money’ goes down the drain always, <br>Why human kids stay starved, naked and sick? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 3-11-2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369741" data-title="Better Dead than Alive! de John Celes" data-description="A vulture sits behind a little boy, Who squats for ‘Nature Calls’ amidst a field- A village practice (without safe toilets) , And wonders if the kid’s alive or dead! Mal-nourished grossly, looking ‘skin and bones’, The child appears..."></div> </div> </div>

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