THE CRISIS WITHIN (A poem on Food Crisis)

THE CRISIS WITHIN

(A Poem on Food Crisis)
Big nations vie to occupy a super-power level
While small nations struggle for own survival,
Humanity, can it amicably pass the crisis within?
Or defeat stares the deprived, as usual again !

In the name of peoples security and welfare
With a positive bent we vie with each other,
Showing care and concern of aggressive nature
We develop technology, devastatingly superior.

Wars often display the real face of humans
But, we stand mute witness to those actions,
Now that another calamity is likely to occur
Are we ready to offer a helping hand dear?

We talk of a world without frontiers and arms
We talk of love and equality amongst all humans;
Instead we develop weapons of mass destruction
Deceiving ourselves and the future generations.

Food, the life-saving precious commodity
If invites a human disaster by its scarcity,
As co-humans, is it not our moral duty?
To show and share humane concern and pity.

Who knows the trauma of a mother’s faith?
Who bothers, if a child starves to death?
Where is the talk of universal brotherhood?
Who is there to offer the life-saving food?

Showing least concern for life-giving ecology
We are but creating advanced warfare technology,
In the process we are destroying the origin of life
What remains if food becomes a subject of strife?

Big nations vie to occupy a super-power level, yes
While small nations struggle in the brewing crisis.