Empty Branches and Dust Covered Children by Scott Hicks

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Narrated by Scott Hicks

 

Empty Branches and Dust Covered Children by Scott Hicks
Illustration by Sue Babcock
Where will all the people go
when their wells run dry?
For now their journey ends
with bottled water and acts of kindness.
The poor go without first.
Fruit trees bear empty branches.
Dust covered children still attend school.
One thousand wells have dried up.
How many more 
before migration begins?
Invested in hope, 
they look to sky.
Rain always in the next cloud.

 

BIO: Scott Hicks lives in Fresno, California.