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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580051" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Twelve Year-old Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">-A 12-year-old girl, who became despondent over her family’s poverty, hanged herself inside their makeshift house a day after her father told her he could not give her the P100 she needed for a school project.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-The government is taking responsibility for a 12-year-old girl who took her life because of extreme poverty but assured that steps are being taken to ease hunger and poverty, officials said on Thursday.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">		-News reports of The Philippine Daily Inquirer,2007 </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The deep shadows that enveloped your home<br>And never retreated since you were born <br>Became the light that illuminated your mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sorrow for your death, my dear child<br>Your mother’s milk on your lips barely dried<br>And she is not tired from singing cradlesongs<br>I did not tell you that there is life…still <br>There is life beyond a pad paper and a pencil<br>that fathers forced into shameful indolence <br>could not purchase, even with their blood<br>This world did not demand heroism from<br>someone so tender and innocent as you<br>Because it owed you; you did not owe it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sorrow for your death, my dear child <br>But I must release the black garb soon<br>for your small grave is a large gift<br>to every cold, famished child like you<br>An intensely brilliant light for a world <br>that is too dark; yes, too disgracefully dark<br>for the blindingly clear sparks and lightning <br>emitted by charged voices hoarse from <br>traveling too much space in too much time<br>You are the voice of the unheeded loud voices.<br> <br>Your grave is the commanding energy <br>that will rouse a nation groping in the dark <br>for its soul fatigued from hopelessness, <br>broken promises and aimless wandering<br>Resigned to a fate worse than death<br>For there is no hunger in the cemetery, <br>not even cold, in spite of its glacial ambiance <br>Your corpse is the chance at redemption<br>of them that wear the crown but never <br>rode the horse to the unspeakable places<br>where every human blight celebrates<br>victory handed on a silver platter by the enemy. <br> <br>I sorrow for your death<br>It is one death too many <br>the death of a million children <br>that should end with your death <br>But I will not slur your sacrifice<br>The tears that flow are an amalgam <br>of crushing grief and a song of hope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cheryl+L.+DaytecYa%C3%B1got">Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot</a><div class=q>
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