Dem Tiff Our Pikin - Child Trafficking

Dem Tiff Our Pikin

Child Trafficking



Her echoing screams

pierced the night

unreeling an impending woe             

rousing every slumbering soul

prompting a sudden madness

 

The other sits then strains   

looking out with earnest yearnings

 scarcely seeing the distance

streaming out the tears

 remembering many sorrows

as she recounts her story

 

This  one grows weary  

as her mind wanders off

overly flustered

by the seemly misty dust

stirred by roaming feet

scantily clothed  

barely holding on

bemused by this troubling reality

 grasping weakly

to her unbroken will

 

The other held on to fate

even as she alter her faith

squatting with a furrowed face

staring blankly at the beaming sun

regurgitating their last words

visualizing her lost world
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