Sad Life For a Child

Family life messed up
Do not feel safe
Do not feel loved
Yelling and screaming
Hitting and hurting
 
Mom says get out
Child is nine
Reality
It does happen
 
Who can help?
Take child?
Not grandma
 
Not you
Not me
 
Sad
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Leffanta Avatar
October 31, 2018 at 12:49 PM
I suspect all those children Trump has hanging in cages were not "abandoned" by their parents but will not be reunited with their parents simply because the world would discover how they have been mentally, physically and sexually abused by USA government employees. Save your newspapers, children need them! Aloha! Rico
Krutsinger Avatar
October 31, 2018 at 2:16 PM
Sadly Rico I am too sad about that to even think of it.
Gauthier Avatar
October 31, 2018 at 10:14 AM
Nothing worse than a child growing up without the safety of a loving home. Strong message, Caren.
Krutsinger Avatar
October 31, 2018 at 10:35 AM
Thank you Line.
Mcferran Avatar
October 31, 2018 at 8:01 AM
That is terribly sad... and terribly unfair for children to be born into this type of situation. Some people should never have kids.
Krutsinger Avatar
October 31, 2018 at 9:23 AM
True, my friend, but they do, and some of them wrack lots of them up.
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