Susan Jeavons Poet Rhyme

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!

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Caren Krutsinger February 2, 2019 at 11:15 PM Call it like it is, my friend, and be loud. We still will not hear, for we have selective hearing, and the abuse is such an unpopular subject. I think you deserve a medal so I will give you a silver and gold spaceship, and you can take it wherever you want. It will be in your dreams tonight. Susan Jeavons February 3, 2019 at 2:02 PM Thanks for the spaceship Caren! Lol! And yes, I am loud about child abuse. Always will be. Hugs, Susan

Arturo Michael February 1, 2019 at 4:27 AM A powerful write Susan...very good... Susan Jeavons February 1, 2019 at 12:20 PM Thank you so much Arturo. Blessings, Susan