Hope Bleeds Gradually by Adrian Wait

Hope Bleeds Gradually
So many hidden stories
Forgotten and ignored
Poverty absorbs life
Hope bleeds gradually
Make do, and mend
Smile and pretend
Slowly, gradually
Visible to invisible
With unchanging smile
Stranger to self
And stranger we deny
As poverty silences
In coldness we comply
Indifference cuts the deepest
Statistics used to deny
Personhood and dignity
Fade, Person to ghost
Dying is easy
It’s living that’s hard
False prophets abound
Hope bleeds gradually
Selling isms by the pound
Disengaged they take the cudgel
Pronounce their humble acts
Do we listen to the stories?
Do we listen to the facts?
Wise in our own eyes
Objective in indifference
Passing by on the other side
So many hidden stories
Forgotten and ignored
Poverty absorbs, denies
Hidden by statistics
Hope bleeds gradually
Make do, and mend
Smile and pretend
Slowly, gradually
Visible to invisible
Christ knows our story
Tell me that it’s true
He bore it on the Cross
We are not alone
Nothing in love is lost
I hope that this is true
Hope bleeds gradually
Whilst Poverty absorbs
Christ knows.

Adrian Wait


My friend Melissa (M Henderson) sent me this poem for my blog. Go check her blog about Global Warming out!!!

A Neat Website!

  This website has plenty of links to show people plans to end poverty, and other things! (Like games to educate children about poverty...)
http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/default.aspx?page=2370

A Small Article About Poverty

  This article talks about the causes of poverty, what is being done about poverty and what can be done about it.
http://icepoverty.pbworks.com/f/B6G6+Global+Poverty+-+Back.pdf

List of Poverty Charities

This is a list of Poverty Charities; they are trying to prevent poverty.
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- Action Aid
- BOND
- Children on the Edge
- End Child Poverty
- Hope for Children
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http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/whoweare/members-a.shtml

Popular Poverty Books

  These are some books I found about poverty!
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 30 times as poverty)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (shelved 19 times as poverty)
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (shelved 17 times as poverty)
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey D. Sachs (shelved 16 times as poverty)
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus (shelved 10 times as poverty)
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http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/poverty
I noticed that my friend Julia (justjuliawilkie) posted the same book list on her blog. (CHECK IT OUT!)