Filthy Hands to Famished Mouths

Third world squalor, inhuman conditions
Death stalks the have nots through depravation
Open sewers, polluted water, monoxide consumes the air
Crowded into shanty structures. Born into a nightmare
Starvation and execution. Starvation and execution
Scavenging in garbage piles, emaciated, malnourished
Most turn away from those below
Pleading for sustenance. The horrors, children suffer below poverty
Sickness, fear and ignorance, all needlessly
Starvation and execution. Starvation and execution
Lives that deserve a chance written off as useless
Police death squads
Disappearances. Shots in the night, hidden graves;
Their victim’s only inheritance. Discarded humanity surrounds discarded
Humanity. Starvation and execution. Starvation and execution
The murdered slaved or stole for crumbs or drugs to deaden
Constant hunger. To deaden consciousness to the coldness in which they lived
From filthy hands to famished mouths