Can you forget this, ever?

Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudane famine. the picture depicts a famine stricken child being stalked by a vulture. The child is moving towards a United nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer who left as soon as the photo was taken. He later confided in his friends that he wished he had intervened. Journalists at that time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease.

Three months later, and only weeks after being bestowed with the Pulitzer prize, Kevin Carter comitted suicide.

You can learn numerous lesons from this one article.. What? I leave that to you...

Reach Out!

I see a child, innocent,
blue-eyed, and crying,
Its tiny fingers in his
mother’s hands prying.
The mother stands, her
heart weeping, eyes sore.
Her baby wont stop sobbing,
though she tells him a lore.
He weeps out of hunger, not
the same reason that she cries,
she has no food for her son,
not even dry rice.
A pitiful sight, yet
we’re mere spectators.
Not wanting to help,some
sort of moral traitors!

Lavish parties, outlandish bashes,
All jiving away into the toxic night.
Food leftover, drinks a flowing,
no one cares and no one might.
There’s always money for movies and fun,
but, never enough for the desolate.
A reality check could show us mirror,
Oh! yes, we’ve a blessed fate!
Crib-topics are a plenty, the phone
that your friend has, the shoes you must buy.
Ever realized, there are people, who
don’t eat for days, three, four or five?

A change of attitude, a
helping hand, a moment of care.
You don’t need to be a true altruist,
that’s all you need to spare!
The world isn’t fair, is what
we like to cry and shout.
Can’t you and I spread some mirth?
Is it so difficult to reach out?