Fortunate Poem by Kela LewisMorin

Eat up all your food, even the vegetables.
Do you know how many kids who would die for your plate?
Do not even think you are leaving the table.
At this rate, you can forget about going out with your mates.

But mamma even if I ate all my dinner they will still be starving.
Eating all this food would not change that.
If they were here right now, I would have no problem with halving.
At least then it would feel like I gave back.

Son, you do not understand me.
Do you know how lucky you are to live the life you lead?
To be able to refuse food so candidly.
When these are things that kids in Africa desperately need.

But Mamma...
No buts because you have always had it this way,
You do not realise how good you have got it.
You have no idea what it is like to wake up each and every day
In poverty with no possible way to escape from it.

You have no idea what it is like to wake up to no running water,
Living like a pauper with a crying 6 month year old daughter.

You have no idea what it is like to have no electricity
And live in captivity with no wifi connectivity.

You have no idea what it is like to have no vegetables,
Let alone eat anything delectable or digestible.

Be grateful that you are able to live the life you lead.
Because others may not have the luxury to be so lucky.
The things they need are the things you oversee with greed.
Be grateful that you can afford to be fussy and still have a full tummy.