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!
Two Vultures
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/06/2020
Poet's note: Kevin Carter took a picture of a starving child at Ayod in Sudan in 1993 which was published by the New York Times. But readers criticised Carter for doing nothing to help the starving child. The poem examines this story in the light of the human angle and encourages people to help the needy.
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Poem topics: away, breath, child, children, death, war, human, good, flight, story, hunger, humanity, comfort, watch, action, world, save, scene, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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