“THIS SPOKEN WORD AT CHRISTMAS.” Things I beheld from the corners of my eye. The boy of 11, barefooted, in torn shorts and tank top, sitting beside his sister aged four, shivering on the cold pavement by the street corner, in need of a lucky morsel to pacify the worms in her bowels. THIS IS HAMID AND YASMIN…ORPHANS OF MOGADISHU, THEIR PARENT WERE SLAUGHTERED IN AN UPRISING. Over one billion of their kind roan the earth in; Cuba, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Rio, Rwanda, Sudan…going to bed hungry, almost every night. 1:09 AM, 25 December. She sat awake in the cold single room, surrounded by the sleeping figures of her six children. “HOW SHALL I FEED MY BABIES ON THIS DAY? OH LORD, SEND A HELPER,” she wondered in silence and prayed with a heavy heart. Thats Mrs. Jenkins, an inner city widow living in Winchester, Chicago. Her husband was killed in a construction site when a granite slab collapsed on him. WITHOUT HELP SUCH WIDOWS ARE HELPLESS AND UNABLE TO FEED THEIR KIDS DURING CHRISTMAS. I introduce you to Emeka, a 35 year old single parent and father to two beautiful angels. His wife Oluchi kissed their marriage goodbye and eloped with another man same week he lost his job. This spoken word talks about how Emeka sat dejectedly on the verandah, crying in retrospect and bitterness. He has not a kobo to his name and would have to depend on the Christmas rice from the neighbor to feed his little girls. ALL YEAR ROUND, SINGLE PARENTS ARE FACED WITH THE STRUGGLES AND HARDSHIP OF FEEDING THEIR WARDS. IT’S CHRISTMAS, BIG DEAL? WHERE IS THE LOVE? THIS CELEBRATION IS BASELESS WITHOUT BENEVOLENCE, WITHOUT HEALTH FOR THE SICK, WITHOUT FOOD AND SMILES FOR NEEDY? THIS SPOKEN WORD AT CHRISTMAS, MERGES WITH MY HEART AND GOES OUT TO ALL HUNGRY KIDS OUT THERE AT CHRISTMAS. THANK YOU. Copyright© 2012 Onyx Kingston All Rights Reserved
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:08:34 +0000
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