What Do You See? Poem by Emerald Wendal

Look out your window what do you see?
I see hunger and starvation looking at me.
Why can I see it? I know I couldn't before.
I thought people dying was legend and lore.
No my friend, sad as it is this is all just too real.
So many people go so long without meals.

Look out your window what do you see?
I see sickness and death looking at me.
Why can I see it? I know I couldn't before.
I thought people dying was legend lore.
No my friend sad as it is trust your eyes.
Of the common, curable things people die.

Look out your window what do you see?
I see warm houses and good food looking at me.
This is what I always see. This is the norm.
I know business men filling out the forms.
Look beyond that, he is as bad off as the others.
Nothing for his kids, his wife, or his mother.

Do you see now? Are your eyes open wide?
Do you see all the people on the unlucky side?
Your neighbors your family, the kids you don't know.
Some you can see but all the others just don't show
Some are born rich while others are born poor.
But everyone knows this shouldn't happen anymore.