Anyone Know This Poem ?

[berenger]

I go to a book group and last week someone read out a poem that was really good. It was a modern poem they found on the internet. It was about how lucky we are to have clean water in the west, and to be able to read and have other things we take for granted. The person who read it said they'd give us a copy of the poem next week but since i heard it i've tried to track it down by searching the net.

I'd like to find it asap as it could help me, it was moving.

Can anyone help ?

[Saharah Blue]

do you remember any of the lines in it?

[piuma]

ermmm this one?

http://www.booksie.com/other/poetry/sue_lewandowska/what-youll-never-see

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A handful of rice per family per week

with no clean water your future looks bleak

disease ridden flies mask sorrowful eyes

and really it's the lucky one who dies.

Diseases and cross contamination

a belly full of emaciation

an existence of anticipation

your prayers are answered by termination.

Medicine, surgeons and education

husbandry, farming and irrigation

skills, self sufficience and liberation

these are the needs of your population.

We're so well off in our three bed semi's

sat on our sofa's watching the emmys

our car's on the drive, we're surfing the net

off to the Maldives in a jumbo jet.

We don't need to fight for each little scrap

water to drink at the turn of a tap

the difference being between you and me

I take for granted what you'll never see.

[Data]

Its just a shame that we can't take good mental health for granted.