An insight

I said - '...and do you remember, when you were 3 and living in Ethiopia, how did you bath?

We did not bath, she told me, playing with water, I don't remember ever having a shower - we didn't have one...'

Hearing these words, from the lips of my beautiful little girl, some statistics suddenly hit me:

• 884 million people do not have an access to safe and clean water
• 3.6 million people die every year from water-related diseases
• 84% of deaths are in children

photo: Martin Waugh

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for Sinthayu

I stopped to ask you - your name
it wasn't written on your forehead
I stopped to enquire where you came from
even though I saw a tag on your bracelet
saying - Earth's womb
I was intreegued by your voice
and love that was pouring
from your eyes
I wanted you - before I knew you
we met in my dreams
many many years ago

Is she your mum?

She flirts with me all the time

with eyes that belong to an angel

I told her that her hands are beautiful

so she shows them to me graciously

every time she meets me

She points at me

showing me to her friends

and nods secretly confirming

answering the question - is she your mum?

And I asked about her

as soon as met her eyes

as soon as I fell in love

with her moments of joy

- you can not have her - the sister said

both her sister and her are positive.

Positive? I enquire, still not used to terminology

- yes, she said, HIV positive

Malta doesn't allow HIV adoptions...

like in Ethiopia

I've never seen so much poverty

so much elegance

so much beauty

such gracious walks

so many warm & responsive eyes

so many blind & deaf

so much dust

so many perfect hair-styles

such wonderful climate

so little bushes and trees

so many people walking

beside each other

hugging & holding hands

so many people dieing of AIDS

so many heads turning towards

the church - praying

whenever they pass one

so many perfectly white shirts

so few old people

so many people with crutches

so many hands greeting each other

such thin cats

and friendly babies

like in Ethiopia

Elsa

She dwells amongst other babies
as their guard, spirit & echo
mirroring energies that flow
her way
- shaking the earth
when she cries - screaming
with voices from Had
- spreading amazing peace
when asleep
A child from Hell
lost on her way to Heaven
A child of our
worst nightmares
A child whose pain we would
never be able to understand
A child in transition
passing through our worlds
reminding us of who we are
A child that embodies
every parent's single fear
and she is just three months old...
Her head is three times larger than normal
her limbs tiny, distorted & white
her skin stretched, her muscles weak

and perhaps is there

to protect some of the other little-ones

of evil eyes and human stupid thoughts

taking all of them on-to-herself

for Ethiopia

i went to the cradle of civilisation
to see the root of problems
of human selfishness and un-consciousness

i went to the bottom to understand the peak
facing death, starvation, disease
i was surrounded with kindness, love and peace

is this the rule?