Grameen

Undeniable Hunger

(Dedicated to Mohammad Yunus on the occation of Nobel prize-giving ceremony)

Poverty compels them to be hard and to fill their
Dry empty belly with brightly glowing stones,
They ignore tears and fill their eyes with sand.
It is easy to say „you could have had another life“
But it is you in which is the imagination to move into
The bright future rather to explore the destiny of past.

Your ability to love those people whose names,
You do not know is the test of your humanity.
Your capacity to move those people whose names,
You do know is an enlightenment of their happiness.

-Monaz Haque, Berlin, 10th December 2006