Day 181: Is It Fair?

Should be Day 198.  This is inspired by a few news articles I read recently.  http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/16/19504645-body-of-missing-louisiana-6-year-old-girl-found-in-trash-bin?lite=     http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/17/19516392-at-least-20-kids-die-after-eating-free-school-lunch-in-india?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=5      http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/17/19516392-at-least-20-kids-die-after-eating-free-school-lunch-in-india?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=5

Is it fair that some should live and some should die?
Is it fair that a bright-eyed, friendly girl of six
Should be robbed of her exhuberance and zest for life
And leave her mother stricken with grief

While another woman no more than sixteen,
Still a girl indeed, should be deciding on whether
she should have this baby,
Because she and her boyfriend took it too far one night?

Is it fair that a father works hard all day
And can never seem to provide enough food for his family
And the one time that he takes a free meal offered for his child,
His only son dies from food poisoning?

On the other side of the globe,
An equally hard-working man buy organic food
For his finicky child to eat, and caters
To every craving he whines about.

Is it fair that a World War II veteran should die
From a simple infection that could have been prevented,
Had the nurses not been severely overworked
Or the doctors spread thin with over twenty dozen patients

Yet in that same hospital
The staff will drop everything for one pregnant woman
Who a few years ago held the same social status as them?
Is it fair that some should live and some should die?