It's a hard choice.
£10
A CD or a life
Sometimes that's all it takes.
It is a hard choice. I really mean it.
Because £10 won't always save a life.
Corruption is everywhere. Maybe it'll be £10 of a limo.
£10 of a cigar. Or maybe they will just die anyway.
Have a drink. Think it over.
For ten pounds seven people can have safe water.
For ever.
And that money will get through.
Human life is cheap.
In fact life is cheap.
£24. One goat.
12 pints of milk a week
Lots of nice manure for the fields.
That could be a life.
It's a hard choice.
Or think half that price.
£12.
200 school meals.
Sometimes it takes so little.
And yet which choice will we make.
A CD or a life.
Its hard to even comprehend how cheap life is.
Author notes
please choose. A CD or a life.
Written November 20th, 2005
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thanks for the comment! Yeah i got the figures mostly from oxfam an stuff.
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this is awesome. i agree with what everyone says. but im sorry to say that i havent thought about this much, so so far in my life ive chosen CDs. theyre MY life
heh id choose a life if i thought about it though
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A sad and confrontational poem. Where did you get the figures from? Obviously if they are correct it is a stark comparison that the cost of a CD could do so much somewhere else. So you firmly believe the responsibility lies with each individual person? While I agree that not enough people donate to charities or are even interested in what they have to say, I feel that there is a much larger issue than what the individual can do. The best an individual can do, really, is apply pressure on their gvernment.
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nice way to show u care for the people, I would appreciate your unique way of spreading a message for a noble cause through a small poem, kudos to you.
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good poem.
wOW. thats a really sad poem. But I like the way you've wrote it. Nice ideas -
I download all my music off the internet so I never buy CD's
What do you mean that's not the point?
I wouldn't chose the CD ok?
Grr
Silyl you.
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