Beloved child

Of the streets

Who has no home

To shelter in

No food to fill

Your soul

Or belly

I open wide

My heart

To you

To every child

Of the streets

So many     so many

Hungry

Abandoned     alone

I speak of

Tigray     Ethiopia

But in truth

Tigray is everywhere

On Earth

Where a child suffers

Are there different degrees

Of suffering

Different ways to suffer

It matters not

Suffering is suffering

How do we let this

Be