Day69
#365daypoetryforadvocacyandsocialchangechallenge
To street kids,
finding rest in dark tunnels
Laying on broken bottles
Fasting for food
Dancing in rags
Smiling with yellow teeth
Drinking from dry gutters
Healing from hard drugs
Taking hugs from trees
Using branches as bed
To homeless kids,
Now drug resistants
Growing compulsory dreadlocks
Seeing humans as animals
Thinking life is a jungle
for the mighty
Struggling to tell society
They are not witches and wizards
Sexually molested in minutes
Dying from stigma
Dying from starvation
Dying from infirmities
In shallow graves unmourned
To wandering kids,
Who have never tasted fried rice
Who got cajoled into bad gangs
Who had to birth malnourished infants
Thinking their life is a mess
Breathing in carbon dioxide
Shivering with bare bodies under rain
Who will maybe not read this
You are noble and tremendous
You will rise again
There's absolute hope for street kids.
Chinatu Orji is an amazing Poetess, a Lover, Advocate and Caretaker of Street Children. She is the Co-Representative at Poets in Nigeria(PIN) CRUTECH Connect Centre, where she studies Mass Communication.
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