This powerful poem, written by Jerry Warshaw, after a visit with a woman from Mbita, Kenya on April 1, 2018, highlights SHARE’s impact on her family and community. Please help SHARE continue this life saving work.
My Life
I was born when the locust was eating the crops, that’s as close as I can tell, a tough time to arrive in the world, no one rang a bell.
Married young,
had eight offspring,
four boys, four girls
it is what life brings.
My husband passed
my memory fades,
so long ago,
he died of Aides.
My children wed
all of the eight
grandchildren arrived
so good to create.
I don’t know the word to
say what unfurls
My four boys died
And then the girls.
But most of the grandkids
live and thrive
because of SHARE
they will survive.