while we

While we fly to the sky 

Do we stop to think and wonder why? 

And while we fight day and night 

Do we really know what’s wrong and right? 

For while we argue and while we lie 

A newborn baby starts to cry 

Is the Band Aid dream still happening 

Or was it all just an eighties thing? 

For while we sing tills they ring 

We have to pricetag everything! 

And while we haggle and while we buy 

One more decade passes by! 

Food not bombs, love not money 

Homes not parking lots; Do you think it’s funny 

That while we argue and while we lie 

A newborn baby starts to cry? 

While we analyze, while we moralize, 

While we theorize, do we empathize? 

While we polarize, compartmentalize, 

We fail to realize the need to harmonize 

Cos while we eat our fries and plump for supersize 

One more hunger victim dies. 

Food not bombs, love not money 

Homes not parking lots; Do you think it’s funny 

That while we argue and while we lie 

A newborn baby starts to cry? 

© JL Pagano 1994

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