Societys Child
Society’s Child
We’re the children in the shadows,
battered, broken and abused!
We’re your neighbors,
we’re your conscience!
We are raped! We are bruised!
When we cry out do you hear us?
Does it matter what we feel?
Does your apathy protect you
from our miserable appeals?
Preachers, teachers, politicians,
doctors, lawyers, rich or poor,
all your promises are empty
when our suffering is ignored!
All your laws and propositions
only candy coat the truth
of the countless hideous crimes
perpetrated on our youth!
In a world that’s always changing,
child abuse will still remain,
if you cannot feel our hopelessness,
if you do not feel our pain!
Copyright © Susan Jeavons | Year Posted 2019
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