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Look at Them

19/10/2013

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PictureImage courtesy of africa / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Look at us in our skin tight jeans
our fashionable jumpers and shirts

Look at us in our warm, multi-bedroom houses
as the rain pour and the wind rages

Look at us eating our bread, and meat and veg
smothered with sauces and spices

So why do you complain?

Too cold, Too warm
Too spicy, Too salty
I’m hungry, I’m thirsty
I don’t like that, I don’t want to

Really?

Do you see them in their rags?
The only clothes they own

Do you see them out in the cold
with the weather wearing them down?

Do you see them, all skin and bone?
without food or clean water

“Yes,” you say. “I saw them on TV.”

…But did you really see them?


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