Two Children

• Lale Oztas, Grade 6, Altona Green Primary School
• Poetry
• 2011

1st in the 'Timeless Tales 2011' competition

Someplace across this gorgeous globe, there are two children.
One wants a mobile phone, she wants to call her friends so she wouldn’t be alone,
all her friends owned a phone,
phones are everywhere, why oh why is life so unfair.

Someplace across this gorgeous globe, there are two children.
This child wants to be fed, and have a soft, tepid bed.
He wants a roof over his head, a house to call a home,
and be so before he’s obscured in the ground, just all bone.
Provisions are everywhere, oh why oh why is life so unfair…