Consider This...(Every Ten Seconds Of Every Day!) Poem by David Whalen

Like to have something
Different for dinner tonight?

Tired of plates
Full of the same old thing?

Tired of having that tight feeling
Of having eaten too much

Tired of letting
Your belt out a notch?

Not enough variety
In all the food you eat?

Overweight just a tad…?
Actually over 80% of us are

Do you frown when
You step on the scales?

Have you thrown something out
Of your cluttered fridge

More than once or twice a week?
I have!

Something that got
Pushed to the back

And then forgotten
(until it got mouldy and turned rotten)

Bought more
When you already had some?

If this describes you
Here's what you should do

Invite poverty over
For dinner tonight with you

Imagine a hungry child
Across your table, looking wide-eyed

At what sometimes
We consider tiresome or boring

And then consider this

Every ten seconds
Somewhere in the world
A child dies of hunger

EVERY…TEN…SECONDS! !