This Poem was Submitted By: Jackie Ray Kays On Date: 2000-12-16 22:53:15 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Tiny Beggar

Tiny Beggar Barely clothed in a small dirty dress, her long black hair in a tangled mess. Her tiny bare feet covered with sores. She stood silently by the open door. Her big brown eyes, staring at my plate.   She was obviously in a hungered state. She was tiny, couldn’t have been more  than four or five. I don’t know how she  managed to stay alive.  I motioned for here to come to me. She hesitated,  then slowly walked up near my knee. She begin to pitifully beg, in a language I didn't understand. I held out a chicken leg. She cautiously took it from my hand. In a flash, out the door and  down the street she ran.  A few minutes later,  as I moved down the walk-way in the jungle heat. I saw the little brown eyed girl, sharing the chicken with two  other little beggars,  of the street. That was years ago,  in a far off,  war torn place. Yet to day, I still recall her haunting eyes, and pitiful hunger face. I hope she was saved by God’s good grace.

Copyright © December 2000 Jackie Ray Kays

Additional Notes:
I saw this little girl in a restaurant in Sigon, in 1965. Her image is embedded in my mind.


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