Gary Edward Geraci

Starved

Photo’s of a small boy who sat

Crouched, left without a sturdy stool.

He’s rain-soaked and sick and food starved,

His body’s wasted, flesh-clung bones;

Soon thereafter dies, I believe,

 

Prays now for me, a man, mood drooped

Low, having dropped the Sturdy Stool.

Once full of pleasures, now pressures

Deprive life: food full but soul starved,

Left alone and wasting away.

 

Gary Edward Geraci