Enough! Poem by Ruby Tonacao Campos

Slowly, silently, carefully, she crawls beneath,
She reaches out her trembling right hand,
Tightly, her left hand held to her belly,
Then she inches forward for the only crumb,
Her mouth waters, waters more.


She moves, another direction, a second crumb,
She covers her face flat to the ground
While her foot, left foot moves,
towards a new direction for a third crumb,
A third 'crumb' my friend,
Can't you hear me?


Carefully, she raises the third crumb
to push it towards her mouth,
But his eyes, condemning eyes, glued at her,
And His leg, right leg is ready,
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Only a crumb please, only a crumb my lord.


Isn't she a human being?
Isn't he not? Isn't he...
The sight is too much for me, to much!
I couldn't dare, I couldn't bear!
The pain, the pain within, Enough!