God Bless the Third World


God bless the third world
For keeping us into our comfort zone.
We can afford to smoke
Thanks to Coke.
And a Chinese take away –
What ever we likee …
Thanks to Nike.

God bless the third world
They must watch for global warming.
We’ll guide them
While we hide them
From God – and the dreadful things we do.
We help them.
They stumble.
We sue, or add interest to their loans.

God bless the third world
For giving us something to live for.
We can stop starvation
Obliteration, destruction, annihilation, starvation.

God bless the third world
To excuse us for making money and war
To excuse us for making money and arms
To excuse us for making money and causing harm.
We use them.
To excuse us.
Bless them, we love them.
God bless the third world.

God bless the third world
For having the forests
So that we can breathe.
For without those forests
We wouldn’t have oil
And we would be cold
And have no cars, no planes, no heating.
If the third world continues
To chop down their forests,
Then we shall stop supplying them arms …

God bless the third world.
And God bless my baby girl,
That I hold in my arms,
Warm and well fed,
Smiling a future secure.
Any future illness
Sure to have a cure.
We stand before a roaring fire
As January dies.
I embrace her, gently, firmly.
Afraid to put her down
In case I misplace her,
Into a third world.

God bless the third world
For making me feel better.
When I donate a pound a month,
To feed so many children
Who would have died
Without my contribution.
I feel cleansed.
Absolution.
She smiles.
I cry.
In the third world
Another baby dies.

Hi Rusty,

Good to see you even with such an intense message, Sir Knight.

Sad world when things come to the state they're in, isn't it?

Love and BIG HUGS,

Alice