How can I ever relate when I'm secure, fed and free to the threatened, hungry and desperate folk who live across some sea? I have never suffered pogroms or seen bayonets in play or had to decide which of my children got a little food today. And what of state rape of women or Rwandan hands cut free how does all of this affect an Englishman like me? Well, I am not innocent or untainted for the guilt is just the same if I prosper in my comfort when my country invented the game.
Tag: hungry
Easy Honours
Good works abound for those
who seek to be a knight
Any publicity is good -
Just spell the surname right.
Be seen to fight injustice
Or work among the poor
Feed the hungry masses
Close a Martyr's door.
Hold a starving baby
But stand still for the press
Carefully check your flight time
- get no pee on your dress.
Wear Versace in a minefield
among some legless kids
The nation watches News at Ten
before it shuts its lids.
Another way to climb
the steps to meet the Queen
is persecute tax payers
until they want to scream.
BUT everyday somewhere
an 'unknown' is brave or kind
No recognition for them though
- out of site, out of mind.
As I See Things 