Black Poetry : Listen to the Children

Kitana

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Aug 17, 2001
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under the sun
Their tears fall and their little hearts cry silently
Hoping that somewhere, someone might hear them
But their cries fall on a deaf world
Nobody hears them, no-one cares
It isn't right, it's just not fair

These are the souls battered and torn
Misused and ignored and often forgotten
A prison of pain is where they live
They suffer daily at the hands of fate
Can't something be done before it's too late

There is a child who is starving
In a barren and empty world of poverty
With not enough food to keep his body alive
A child who is simply born to die
Has anyone ever asked why

There are also the children abused every day
By an unrelentant keeper who deals in fear
There is no escape, nowhere to go
They suffer silently, too frightened to tell
Surrounded by a pain they know only too well

Also are the homeless who live on the street
Their bed is not comfortable or clean
On a scavenger hunt they find their food
Their bodies are their trading cards
It's too easy to say life's hard

Last are the children, born but not wanted
A human mistake discarded like trash
Left on a doorstep or shunted around
Thrust into a world which holds no hope
They are left alone to survive and cope

But tears shouldn't fall and little hearts shouldn't cry
Little children should be happy all the time
Their world should be full of sunshine and laughter
And we should listen to our children every day
We have to show them we love them in every little way

(c) NFN
 
volumes...

of TRUTH being spit here

thanks for exploring
this category
which many have been ignoring
the fate of the little ones
born to die
living to die
to young to cry
tears of abuse
and misuse
in a game they can't afford
to lose

WHY?

you ask
as one after another
my li'l sistah and brutha
pass on to another life
one
without rejection and strife

we pass by the homeless
everyday
walk by the hungry
with nothing to say
step on the weak
disillusioned
and lame

and never ask their names.

is that you?


hmmm.
 
pd...thank you for the sentiment..this is close to my heart...I want to have arms wide enough to hold all the children in the world...sometimes it just gets to me....

epip..no it just isn't fair...all little children need are the basic necessities in life and lots of love..not too much to ask for but it seems they are some of the hardest things in the world to attain for many little ones...

baller...it is many of us, I think because we don't believe that the little bit we can do will make a difference...but it will, because all the little bits add up to a big bit, and it does make a difference in someones life...a smile makes a difference..a hand to hold makes a difference..a blanket or a simple meal makes a difference..

K
 

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