The Sobs Of The Starving Children

We know about them from the radio and television and the hungry getting hungrier by the day But we do not hear the sobs of the starving children from where we live they seem so far away On the six o clock news at times we do see footage of hungry children in a Land where poverty and disease is rife And we feel a twinge of sadness that we cannot help them since we have got our own struggles in life. Still the sobs of the hungry children are growing louder and not all of them live in a far Country And not all of them in the slums of the big city there's such a thing as hidden poverty The single mother raises her brood on welfare and she has to struggle for to make ends meet And they survive on bread and tea and milk and cornflakes since she cannot afford to buy them meat. Banks and corporations make billions in yearly profits and we read and hear of their financial gain But they don't help to feed the starving children and the growing scourge of poverty remain A mile from where the billionaire lives there's poverty and hunger yet of their plight he does not wish to know Still for him to grow wealthier others must grow poorer and life goes on as it did years ago. To find want you don't have that far to travel for poverty is everywhere and near And though the starving children keep on sobbing louder their cries for food we do not seem to hear And sad to say that those who talk and dream of an egalitarian society will never live to see their dreams come true And in a World where there is want and hunger the majority of the World's wealth still with the wealthy few.