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 AIDS.
My children wed
all of the eight,
grandchildren arrived,
so good to create.
I don’t know the word
for what unfurls
My four boys died
and then the girls.
But most of the grandkids
live and thrive,
Because of SHARE
they will survive.
In parting, the woman had a request for Jerry: “I ask one thing when you return, Bless all of SHARE in my children’s name.”
SHARE donors make all this possible, THANK YOU!