children abuse

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‘Sorry mommy and daddy
Forgive me aunty and uncle
I don’t mean to make your day
Hard as it is putting food on the table’

The pressure of work
The lure of easy life
Parents don’t make it
Abuse children like falling leaves
Feeling no remorse feeling a frustration
Amongst the working environment
And the people they transact in their time

Children cry
Wailing out loud neighbors hear
Trying to keep off
Let the parents discipline their children

One or two minutes maybe ok
When it goes on for hours or days
There is something wrong anyway
Concerned neighbors must right the wrong
It is just a phone call to the police station

The helpless children
Tortured and abused showing no mercy
Parents and guardians, maids and baby sitters
When in the hands of abusive people
The children have no place to hide….

When the cry hit the roof
No sane soul should pretend
Helping them is just a phone call away
Do your part; be concerned about your neighbors
In this way rights will be protected some ways

“I am sorry mommy and daddy
I don’t mean to make it hard for you
You bring us to this world
Don’t let us suffer in no uncertain terms
Love us and guide us to good deeds
Let us be happy in our childhood”

The pictures tell so many stories
It reminded me of an incident decades ago
In my village then
A father raped his daughter barely 1 year old
Mind you he was religious and pious
Every religious festival he was in the organizing committee
Until his own heinous crime on his daughter
Everybody got a shock!

So good citizens
Play a part makes this world free
Of predators in our midst
Camouflaged in human forms
Doing those nasty abusive things