Description: I wrote this as a tribute to the people I met on my mission trip. The sadness that permeates Guatemala is too much to bear at times. Whole families live in cardboard boxes, and mothers learn not to cry for the deaths of their children after their first one dies. It's terrible and sad to watch a child lying in the street waiting to die. And when you ask him in his own tongue what he is doing in the street, he says he is "so tired, he just wants to go to sleep." Personal experience in the states told me to pick up that child and hold him in my arms. And so I did. I spoke to him in his own language telling him of Jesus as he died. And finally he went to be with our Lord and Saviour. I wrote this poem for him and the people that say that poverty doesn't exist anymore.
Brothers in Brown Skin -------------------------------------------
Oh foolish man,
you know nothing of what I have seen.
The horrors would raise gooseflesh
on your life-softened skin.
You know nothing of the suffering
of the brothers who await their death
for the follies of other men.
Betrayl glistens on your hateful lips
you who have lived sheltered
crying at a pins prick...
while others starve with bellies round
a sight which would melt you
the sobbing, and the chaos of the sound
the ringing of the regress of man
in the Guatemalan streets
All over the world suffering is a part of life and in America we live by
"more is better". It's so touching that you've seen it and that the impression made you write.
The only suggestion i would have is to use this time to illustrate the children themselves. You do a fine job of showing us how Americans have forgotten the suffering others must bear. It seems that you've done this in the introduction, but then leave it up to the reader to decide. In other words, what if the intro was not available to explain?
Are you showing your anger at those who don't seem to care or are you hailing the bravery of the Guatemalan people? Or showing how the children might suffer? Just some ideas to ponder though all it this makes sense and is very well done.
a very powerful write. I felt my heart go out to my brown skinned brothers in Christ.
It is very disheartening when we see there are millionaires and even billionaires in the world
and still poverty is of no concern to those who have so much . This is why Jesus said,"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of needle than for a rich man to enter Heaen."
I am thinking that there must be someone who has a website on which there can be established an international Prayer Group in which a world need can be named and everyone pray for that particular need at a given time.
Submission Name: Brothers in Brown Skin
