What Is It? Poem by Anita Sehgal

What Is It?



He had no flesh to clothe his bones.

No strength to drag this frail bag.

A terrible anguish fills my heart....

Why does he suffer so?

What tremendous burden does he carry?

That does not snap the body from the soul.

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Disturbed by the 1994 Pultizer prize winning picture by Kavin Carter on the Sudan famine.
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