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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372405" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Plight of Children Today</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What looks like play for child with just toy gun, <br>Is not something done entirely for fun; <br>For, nowadays, one finds children misused, <br>For various reasons, and also abused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some buds can’t blossom into flowers good, <br>And beautify the plants on which they lie; <br>Nor landscapes, gardens or a far-off wood-<br>For, they are nipped early, destined to die! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, what a sorry state of children now! <br>The world denies them freedom, basic rights; <br>Neglected by parents, they pine for love; <br>Children are prey to society’s vice-bites! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Orphaned, famished, ravished, bare-bodied, some, <br>Just spend their lives in pavement beggary; <br>Although quite beautiful and quite handsome, <br>They lead a miserable life that’s scary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why blame these kids for stealing eatables? <br>What will they do when hunger pangs seize them? <br>What can they do if offered drugs for free? <br>What can they do when misled by adults? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When acts of violence, TV screens display, <br>When scenes of taking revenge catch their eyes, <br>When war of words are witnessed by young minds, <br>Will not more children fall in vice-filled dens? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most children love to eat and sleep and play; <br>They’re unable to do these things today; <br>Weighed down by satchel-full of books to school, <br>Some play truant and make their parents, ‘fool’! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And children are the victims when comes war; <br>Misused as jockeys for camel-race; <br>For less pay, working with adults at par; <br>You see just children with fear on their face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gun-toting children in military dress, <br>They have no parents to love or caress; <br>They learn to fight and shoot under duress; <br>Some, homosexual victims, in harness! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Child is the father of man tomorrow; <br>Most children live in dangers and sorrow; <br>Some leave their homes, when young akin sparrows; <br>Some toil by pushing carts and wheel-barrows! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A very sad plight of children today! <br>Some have to slog at nights almost like day; <br>Some barely-fed, learn vices, come what may; <br>The modern world has not a thing to say?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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