The News At Ten
In London
A young woman
walks the streets
Laddered tights
Swollen feet.
Sells her body
So her kids can eat.
Is She the one to Blame?
In Gambia
A man so poor
Addicts his children
To Heroine
To keep their bellies
Full within.
He works all day and night
How are they meant to live.
When all he earns
Is all he gives.
Is he the one to Blame?
In Glasgow
An underground society
A depth of drugs
So high their free
A family bond
A unity
The streets alive with poverty.
Yet people see what they want to see.
Are they the ones to Blame.
In India
How can it be?
that a country where
beliefs are strong.
Through religious eyes they
could see.
How cruel their flesh and blood could be.
When 3 girls aged 3-8
Awaited such an awful fate.
Were tortured, raped and murdered.
Then thrown into a well.
How could that man, then pray to God
To save his soul from Hell.
Was he to Blame?
In Pakistan
Many marry very young
To a person they don't know
For love will come
Throughout the years
Each seed you plant will grow.
Yet some are beaten everyday
Raped in their own beds.
For her husband held all the power
In the hands she'd come to dread.
To live a life just like a slave
Is that not hell on earth?
To have a body without a soul
Never knowing what it's worth.
She was Modest and good
She worshiped Allah each day.
But her culture stole her religion away.
Was she the one to Blame?
In America
A Mother hates her child so
As depressions eats away her soul
She couldn't stay to hear
him cry.
She drank so much
The years flew by
Her child un loved
yearned for his Mum.
Her hatred like vomit
Churned with the Rum.
No one knew or realised
how much the child had the eyes
of her rapist
Who stole her pride.
Two lives that led to suicide.
Was she to Blame?
Us
We live
Despite our contradictions
Selfish morals
Our self inflictions
If kindness
Made you rich or poor.
Would we feel such pain
Would there be a war.
It doesn't matter where you live
Flag or countries name.
Open up your eyes
All poverties the same.
Did we not create this world
Are we not all to Blame?
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