Thank you, administrators, for the accolade and your hard work.
Children’s Hunger
Famine, hunger in such young eyes
Makes your heart flutter and cries
Out for the injustice of their plight
Where food is scarce and working is a fight
Among brothers, sisters, kin to survive,
Survive with enough only to strive
The next day, another forage, another clash,
To sustain an entire family in a brush
With death, daily success to survive
Kills the will to endure, while their eyes drive
Knives in your heart for their struggle,
Struggle to stay together and not take the last bubble
Of air before their father, mother,
Cousin bring a tiny loaf of bread, sharer
Of life giving nourishment is never enough
To end the hunger pains or despair enough
To feel safe that another day
Will shine bright with hope to sway
The powers to help end famine,
Children growing old before their time in fine
Slithers of hope that shine
Through black clouds of hopeless brine,
Brine of depression’s hold that flogs
The will to survive another empty stomach that bogs
Their thinking process to when’s
The next meal, how to get it, who’s pens
Do they take from to stave death
Another day where rest, play aren’t in their path.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 