See Their Faces

Look! look! see theEndless sea of faces,Sunburnt, hardenedBy long nights and longer daysOf empty hands and emptierstomachs.See each face, smoldering,So alive, dancing on theThreads of death.

Look! look! noticeeach face.All the same.Every face, identical.Look and see: the face ofa child.Hungry;Hungry for more than an echo,An echo of faint promises.Hungry: starving and thirstingFor more than your spare change.Hungry for a change.