The Other Half

Merry Christmas

To the other half.

Give this thought

This night you eat

A lovely roast

Or a Turkey treat

Half the World

Is staving NOW

Not living on

The fatted cow.

These hungry millions

Of half this world

Care not the luxuries

Of diamonds or pearls

A bowl of rice

Is all they want

From this great big

Worlds feeding pot.

New born babies

From the mother’s womb

Add to the millions

In the hunger queue

No milk to feed them

From the mother’s breast

For she herself

Is a skeleton, no less.

A ripe old age

Is not for them

When starvation

Kills, nine out of ten

We stack our food

In mountainous stocks

Sometimes left

To stink and rot

Can’t mankind

Forget his greed

And give this food

To those in need

Peter Wicks , Merry Christmas all….