Save the Children

“for a taste of how she lives try eating your neighbors’ garbage.
Tina eats what other people throw away –
vegetable peelings, an apple core, a moldy piece of bread.
Where she lives, 7 out of 10 children suffer from malnutrition.
Their parents, although they work hard, can’t provide the barest needs…” (magazine ad)

my womb is the size of my fist is the
size of my heart.
my womb could expand with a child if
an egg were incited.
they say there are too many children
& that’s why they’re starving,
too weak for crying.

my womb is the size of my fist is the
size of my heart.
my fist becomes pregnant with anger & ripe
for a revolution when I know it’s
greed that leaves people hungry,
people dying.

my womb is the size of my fist is the
size of my heart.
And my heart grows to bursting with caring
that children are sick because
rich men are not sharing.

-by Terra Rafael