Two Vultures

In the war and drought ravaged Sudan
A vulture stood watch
Over a dying child
Ravished by hunger and starvation
A little more than a human skeleton

He lay dying
On the dirt gasping
Taking his last breath
In the throes of imminent death;

A man saw a good story
A front-page news
With his powerful camera
The scene he captured
For the whole world
For posterity
He needed it
To show the imperative of action
To save the world's children

He took the shot
And the next flight took
Away to his comfort zone
But to a humanist
There were two vultures
At the scene, one of them
Had a camera-the man
Who made no efforts
To save dying humanity!