Homeless and Hungry Where do I go to be safe? Where, oh where do my children and I get a bite to eat during this pandemic? Let it be told so someone can help our stomachs not to hurt. So hungry, so cold at night! My babies can not stop crying Fear and pains reasons why. Change gotta come for survival to remain. Hard times drive us to be Homeless and Hungry Wide-eyed Innocent Children stare in Wonderment All babies know are severe pains of hunger All babies want are a peanut butter and jelly sandwich How about an apple, how about a banana, or sip of milk, some juice. Hear babies’ feeble cry Listen how they whimper. Can you please show us way to shelter and food? Food will take away pain Unite to help rid our hunger, help Mothers stay sane. Unity brings phenomenal change. Thank you for awesome help you give to ex out gloom. So my babies will stop crying So my babies will have cover over head soon Sylvia Dianne Beverly (Ladi Di) entered this poem about food waste in the 2018 World Food Day Poetry Prize competition. A collection of her work is housed at George Washington University's Gelman Library. Ladi Di celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Host Grace Cavalieri, reading on her show "The Poet and the Poem" at the Library of Congress Experience.
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Sylvia Beverly
3/14/2022 05:04:35 pm
Oh so happy to be a part of XHunger Movement!
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