Page:Poems for Workers - ed. Manuel Gomez (1925).djvu/18

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.

God to Hungry Child

By Langston Hughes.

Hungry child,
I didn't make this world for you.
You didn't buy any stock in my railroad.
You didn't invest in my corporation.
Where are your shares in Standard Oil?
I made the world for the rich
And the will-be-rich
And the have-always-been-rich.
Not for you,
Hungry child.

16