Hungry Without Rain

We did have a rather wet winter but of that one ought not to complain
The summer could be dry and thirsty we do need Nature's gift of rain
In two months of warm and dry weather the paddocks would look bare and brown
And the reservoir down below half full that supplies water to the people of the town
In the Horn of Africa for a decade of seasons there hasn't been any rainfall at all
On the bare sun dried ground nothing does grow where only the dark ants do crawl
The survivors of droughts and of famines wasted from hunger and disease
Surviving on food to them rationed in overcrowded camps of refugees
Many of their  friends and families of malnutrition have died in a slow and painful way
Did they have some rain in their homeplace they would not be where they are today
Of rain we should not be complaining without help of rain nothing does grow
I am not saying anything that is new here i am telling you something you should know
We did have a very wet winter and of that some like to complain
But again i would like to remind them that we would be hungry without rain.