Poetry

                                   Hunger by Robert Laurence Binyon

I come among the peoples like a shadow.

I sit down by each man's side.

None sees me, but they look on one another,

And know that I am there.

My silence is like the silence of the tide

That buries the playground of children;

Like the deepening of frost in the slow night,

When birds are dead in the morning.

Armies trample, invade, destroy,

With guns roaring from earth and air.

I am more terrible than armies,

I am more feared than the cannon.

Kings and chancellors give commands;

I give no command to any;

But I am listened to more than kings

And more than passionate orators.

I unswear words, and undo deeds.

Naked things know me.

I am first and last to be felt of the living.

I am Hunger

....This poem describes all the characteristics of how people in developing countries such as Africa see hunger. "None sees me, but they look on one another, And know that I am there . . . I am first and last to be felt of the living." (Laurence Binyon, 2\3, 19) shows us that when people in Africa realise they are terribly hungry it is the beginning of  the end for them. This will be the last thing they feel as they leave the earth....