A Child Is Born: From Far Poem by Atef Ayadi

there was a TV commercial
about saving a child
from a miserable deadly fate.

as soon as thecommercial popped up,

I asked my roommate:

why you do not help
with a dollar or two to save
that child?
look at her,
she is a beautiful child!
-there is no ugliness in a child, just look close. The ugly part is when one remembers oneself as one looks at a child.-

My roommate
became angry and agitated
when he saw an African, Latino, or Asian starving child


he always say:

''let them die
you can not help them,

just wait, they will grow up and
will kill each other anyway.
let them die,

it is a waste.''