They offer free water, free flour and rice

No donations needed - a moment's the price

Just feed a child with a single mouse click

The press of a button - a mere finger flick!

And rescue a child from the grip of starvation

In Kenya, Uganda, some African nation

South America, China, the country's my choosing

Whichever, wherever, that I find amusing

Beside my computer, I sit and I trust

My mouse-clicks have gotten to those that they must

While I struggle to feel pity or affection

Casual charity offers little connection

As a kind-hearted act it seems almost worthless

The ease of its use is defying its purpose

It's the power involved that staggers my senses

And awakens within me Godlike pretences

You thirsty children, should you get your water

Will you worship me? Praise me? Will you spare a thought for

The Anonymous Man in his fully plumbed house

His power deployed at the touch of a Mouse?

Now I give the button a tentative prod

And you're fed and watered, by grace of your God

How utterly dull - what dreary salvation

Why should I love those that are not my creation?

So eat up and drink up, but save some to hoard

For soon your new deity will become bored

And you'll be abandoned - no real reason why

For want of a mouse click I'll leave you to die