<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549631" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dark Chocolate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wrapped in shinny wrappers, <br>golden, red, silver and brown, <br>chocolate, the king of sweets, <br>everyone's favorite treat, <br>dropp it in your mouth, <br>it slips and melts, <br>bitter sweet with nuts, <br>lover's gift, chocolate kiss! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Born in West Africa<br>bred by little hands, <br>little feet walked three days, <br>on stale porridge and water, <br>sweets they have heard not, <br>schools they know not, <br>only cocoa farms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With machetes in their hands, <br>they chop the pods, <br>often, when they swing too high, <br>they strike their leg, <br>often when they swing too low, <br>they, strike their hand, <br>hospitals they have none, <br>muddy clothes they tear<br>and tie the bleeding wounds, <br>continue to collect the beans, <br>for a child in the city<br>might be throwing a tantrum, <br>for his favorite sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hungry hearts, candy bars, <br>snakes bites, valentine's gift, <br>gift of blood, spraying pesticides, <br>dark, white and milk, pleasure trip, <br>horror, blood and tears, cartoon strip, <br>Easter egg, child labor, dark treats.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the men in uniform they arrive, <br>the children hide the machete, <br>and pretend to play, how can they<br>for they know no games.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cocoa bean from black, muddy<br>bleeding hands sit on the shelves <br>of the finest stores where tiny<br>soft pink hands pick them up<br>From hand to hand the chocolate<br>travels, sinned on the way<br>bitter sweet, the chocolate's way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/news/int ernational/chocolate_bittersweet.fortune/ - 70k - <br>www.antislavery.org/homepage/news/cocoareport 290702.htm -<br>www.american.edu/ted/chocolate-slave.htm</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Reshma+Ramesh">Reshma Ramesh</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=549631" data-title="Dark Chocolate de Reshma Ramesh" data-description="Wrapped in shinny wrappers, golden, red, silver and brown, chocolate, the king of sweets, everyone's favorite treat, dropp it in your mouth, it slips and melts, bitter sweet with nuts, lover's gift, chocolate kiss! Born in West Africa bre..."></div> </div> </div>

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