Street Children

Street children are roaming around the streets While the dark sky Pours the earth with tears. Street children are roaming around the streets Even if the Sun sprays The land with its hot and fiery rays. Street children are roaming around the streets While the dark and lonely nights Are infested with beasts. Street children crawling like rats Waiting for their next meal They are like snakes sleeping on the slimy streets. Oh children of misery With hollow cheeks Mud covered their arms and knees They knocked at your hearts Forced to kneel And kiss your hand and feet For a single cent. Oh poor children They mature before their time Starvation is a day to day scene They could die anytime And anywhere Without seeing the rising Sun. Copyrigt 2019, Rose Marie Juan-Austin, All Rights Reserved