Let me lend you my eyes for a day

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Let me lend you my eyes for a day

Would you please let me lend you my eyes for a day

And see all of my world as I do for today,

Would you watch the desperation that broods all around,

As starvation, greed, hate and poverty abound,

Misery loves company and here we are found,

 

Would you please let me lend you my eyes for a day,

My only request is you don’t turn away,

From reality that’s staring you grimly your way,

Surviving on less than a dollar a day,

Children forsaken with no place to stay,

 

Would you please let me lend you my eyes for a day,

Don’t hold back the tears I will wipe them away,

As government conspires to rob all of our wealth,

Our wages for hardship is longing for death,

We cling to religion we’re living by faith,

 

Would you please let me lend you my eyes for a day,

I wish I was blind’s what I really mean to say,

Yet I’m happy I now may be able to pray,

And hope once returned I will see a better way,

You may be our only hope to change this dismay,

So would you please let me lend you my eyes for a day,

 Edwin Nderu Kamau

 

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iLuvPoetryJACOB commented on Let me lend you my eyes for a day

03-16-2010

You just lent me your eyes, and it was amazing--sad, but amazing. It's great of you to be spreading awareness through poetry, because most that I have read is not really about poverty and things like this. . . . Nice write, a ten from me; I love the message. --Natalie.

TheOptimist commented on Let me lend you my eyes for a day

02-10-2010

hey edwin! just wanted to let u know i used this poem for a poetry unit with a class it went great!!

daydreamer23

12/20/2010

thanks I'm honored.

photochick commented on Let me lend you my eyes for a day

08-13-2009

great poem very deep and full of passion you have a great message here and you had me hooked from the first line all the way to the last keep on writing and spreading the love i enjoyed seeing things through your eyes and cant wait to read more of your work

ladypoet commented on Let me lend you my eyes for a day

08-03-2009

Nice nice. I like this piece. It got more profound qas I got towards the end, and I got more pulled into it. I love the ending. Good one, definately a reality as I speak. Much love..God bless -Lady P.

Shajami commented on Let me lend you my eyes for a day

07-26-2009

wow this was deep for me...good write kinda didnt want it to end! ~Sha

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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