<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=401619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Impoverished Dignity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I seek but a dash of water to quench my horrible thirst.<br>I scour dumps for scraps as my children’s stomachs burst.<br>I have so many enemies like angry ground and skies.<br>I know not why I’m chosen the one that they despise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In less than a minute my country is destroyed.<br>Sickening sights of dead and dying, I’m unable to avoid.<br>My people came to this land to escape becoming slaves.<br>For many now their escapes will be at best mass graves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was born with nothing and grew up with pain and death.<br>Now it’s so much harder to sustain each belabored breath.<br>All I ask is that dash of water to keep my babies alive…<br>And a few grains of rice so that they can survive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not asked for much, but even then I’ve been denied.<br>I hope my young will seek more and not be too satisfied.<br>Ground and sky, be friend or foe, will always fill the days.<br>Though tragic, I seek a chance to dignify impoverished ways.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gregory+Huyette">Gregory Huyette</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=401619" data-title="Impoverished Dignity de Gregory Huyette" data-description="I seek but a dash of water to quench my horrible thirst. I scour dumps for scraps as my children’s stomachs burst. I have so many enemies like angry ground and skies. I know not why I’m chosen the one that they despise. In less than a minute ..."></div> </div> </div>

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