A small slight figure
Almost emaciated
But with a cute charm
I saw her digging
Cunning eyes on the lookout
Searching for treasures
Her life now reduced
To degenerate squalor
Where were her parents
A child without her childhood
And just where were we?
Where were we indeed? The inequality in this world is terrible. Well stated.
ReplyDeleteYou ask important questions in this.
ReplyDeleteWe were studying the share market or the real estate guide because all we care about is bigger is better and having lots of money and too much is never enough. Ripper poem oldegg! I like it when you get the ginger goin':)
ReplyDeleteDo see the TV mini series Mildred Pierce with Kate Winslet. The book was written in 1941...mind boggling for the times and probably now as well.
ReplyDeleteThe deprived are the forgotten. That's how life is! Nicely Old Egg!
ReplyDeleteHank
You hit the middle stump with this one old son. Where were we? Not where we should have been - obviously.
ReplyDeleteWhere were we!! Makes me wonder! The state of the girl tugged the strings of my heart!
ReplyDeleteAnd where are we now? A timely piece, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThings seem to never get better.
ReplyDeleteWatching but not doing I'm guessing...must be even harder for her parents looking on..wanting better..assuming they are still there to watch
ReplyDeletePowerful question.
ReplyDeleteThe role of politics is huge, but there is also the question of how best to help. Everyone wants the feel-good answers, like sending food, while the real solutions go ignored.
ReplyDelete'And just where were we?' I like how it states things that we can see in the picture, but you wind it up by provoking the reader to not just sit there and observe passively :)
ReplyDeletewhere are we indeed?
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