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The hurting world

Half the world cried,

“your hurting me.”

While the other half said,

“No were not.”

Half the world said,

“we want more pay for our labor.”

While the other half said,

“no 20 cents an hour is all you get.”

Half the world cried,

“stop bombing us.”

While the other half said,

“it’s for your greater good.”

Half the world said,

“we are hungry.”

While the other half

just looked the other way.

Half the world said,

your hurting me,

The other half continued

to be hurtful.

O, when will it all end,

this terribly divided world!?

© Written by Dominic John Gill 16/July/2006 www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au