Barefoot begging searching for food in trash cans.
Bumming slumming soliciting for helping hands.
Homes are sheets draped over branches and trees.
Bitten by mosquitoes, ants, rodents and bees.

If you see somebody hungry on the street,
Would you give them something to eat?
Or would you just hurriedly pass them by,
Dear poet, act disgusted and wonder why?

Thousands hungry hopeless children all over the world,
Go to bed hungry--adults, infants, little boys and girls.
Rib cages showing traces of their starving bones.
Barely hanging onto life-lingering life almost gone.

Drinking dirty defiled water bacteria making them ill.
Suffering from diseases, if treated could be healed.
Living in run-down shacks sleeping on wet cold floor.
Coughing catching water in buckets, as the rains pour.

Bathing, washing clothes in murky muddy lake.
Boiling but drinking the same water--for Heaven's sake!
Little children lifeless eyes little will to live.
Hungry and wet lies crying baby in makeshift crib.

Third World countries are affected the most.
Missionaries help, some traveling coast-to-coast.
So, when you see "Feed the Hungry" on a tv ad,
Just whip out your checkbook, help hopeless and sad!