Child Of Fortune
A sunken, emaciated,
Weather-beaten-faced child,
With festering eyes where flies linger,
Sits looking at a decrepit TV on the ground
Of the orange-coloured bare earth,
Under the blue sky near a gum tree.
On the TV’s misty screen is seen a movie star,
A modern-day lady philantropist, pleading for money from our egalitarian country citizens.
Near her, in the picture on the TV,
Is the image of an emaciated child.
The child, sitting on the orange-coloured bare earth, reaches out to touch the screen
Believing it to be his own reflection
Or his long-lost brother.
© Judy Brumby-Lake
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