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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=370136" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Have a Heart for Children, Poor!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In poverty born, bred, they live<br>In misery and future bleak, <br>All famished, ravished and ill-clad –<br>Most children of the modern world! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their parents have to slog all day; <br>They can’t afford a single meal; <br>They cannot go to school but stay<br>As rag-pickers all life and earn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What folly have their parents done? <br>The poor are unlucky always; <br>Their future is like broken glass, <br>That cannot be together put! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In mud-walled huts and roofs of leaves, <br>With longing eyes that beg for food, <br>Half-naked children wait to hear<br>The foot-steps of their parents come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With weathered faces, unkempt hair, <br>With innocence without compare, <br>With mal-odor that fills the air –<br>How much of sorrow can they bear? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their eyes appear to speak and plead<br>To anyone who passes by, <br>‘Have mercy on us, poor children; <br>We smile despite our hunger-pangs! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their eyes look muddy, lack-lustre; <br>Their anguished hearts, enfeebled frames; <br>Not enough blood afills their veins; <br>Their food is deficient always! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their eyes speak volumes of ill-luck, <br>And torture by human beings; <br>Their bodies bear the scars of past<br>unfairness, meted out by all! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have to walk for miles bare-foot, <br>to fetch a pot of water that<br>can never quench their thirst for long<br>but causes diarrheal deaths! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Nature’s furies take their toll, <br>As rain and floods and droughts unfold; <br>Diseases turn them invalids –<br>The God who made them watches on! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But blame must go to mankind first, <br>Whose wastage, wrongs and ill-wrought plans<br>Reduced most of the human race<br>To existence in poverty! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A few on earth have richer turned, <br>by making rest of poor, poorer! <br>Their hearts of greed can’t be appeased<br>Until their death-knell’s gong is belled! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">’Tis strange to watch how hunger kills<br>the children of stark poverty, <br>Whilst big money goes down the drain<br>and rodents, pests eat most food-crops! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beware of eyes of children poor! <br>In silent, wordless, ways, they plead<br>To God to change their misfortune: <br>Unleash His wrath upon the rich! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 09-27-2008</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>
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In misery and future bleak, 
All famished, ravished and ill-clad –
Most children of the modern world! 

Their parents have to slog all day; 
They can’t afford a single meal; 
They cannot go to school but stay
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