Imagine.

When hunger gets fat from imbibing the yields
of fertile soil multitudes thrive,
provisioned abundantly
by enhanced vitality yet never easily pleased.

Hard to imagine is the strain of starvation as
danger impregnates a willingness
dries to become wholly
impoverished then all aliveness lies defeated.

To witness a happy rise in compassion would
prove any travesty can be most
bettered by enjoying
empathy's pleasure provided aid is repeated.

cjkrieger
Each line made me want to read the next… excellent!

lynnbglover
Fay I enjoyed this piece very much and the compassion and empathy expressed in the last verse is very meaningful and also wonderfully written.

Floreann Cawley
An excellent and wonderful write..Floreann

Kesav V Easwaran
Well written piece...liked the noble message it carries in

Karin Anderson
The last stanza says it all Fay. Compassion and empathy are so very much needed I imagine too!

Yarbrough
A wonderfully phrase work. Obvious made by a practiced hand.

heather wilkins
compassion would settle so many of the world problems today. It would be nice Fay.

Chaos1214
Compassion seems an increasingly rare commodity, these days. Can something be ephemeral and eternal at the same time? If so, here it is.

Lynda Robson
Nice write Fay, a rise in compassion would be good

nimal dunuhinga
'Hard to imagine is the strain of starvation' The above line tells everything?

narain, jay p.
Nice poem.

tom balch
Hard hitting , Fay. A rise in compassion as you say , hard to imagine.