With Hunger In Your Eyes Poem by Gert Strydom

With hunger in your eyes
you did look for a moment at me
with a gaze that does not recede before anyone's
as if from me
or from someone else you would find help,
as if I had to hear you begging voice
and you did tremble in the cold wind
and somewhere you did loose your own humanity
and again
you wanted food from me
where you were wandering helpless between the shops
and I did not know what to tell you
as life did also turn its back on me
and I did draw the old jacket tighter against my body.