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Theme : Pain
Cry of India
 by David M Gunson 

A street dog, mangy, with open sores,
ribs protruding like the fasting Buddha
paces back and forth the street,
anguish in her rheumy eyes.

She turns to me with such a look
of anguish and anxiety
I thought that she might turn on me,
instead she let a mournful cry.

That anguished howl tore through my soul
more resonant than a singing bowl;
a cry from all the homeless ones,
the beggars and lepers we try to ignore.

Her cry went up into the night,
such sorrow, such pain, such loneliness.
My own cry rose within my chest.
What to do? Who to save?

That cry is inside me evermore
no matter how fast I walk away.
That cry of India in the night
cannot, through ignorance, be ignored.

March 23, 2008  

Image under license with Gettyimages.com

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