Sweet Street Child.....For 14/11 Children's Day Poem by Nalini Jyotsana Chaturvedi

Sweet Street child
You On my mind
Born to the rags
World is so vile

Shamelessly immune
To your sunken eyes
Matted hair,
tattered clothes
Cracked feet
Still No shoes

Debauched community
Looks naked and bare
Of your sub humanness
You are made so aware

For you are the mirror
That they fear to see
Too much agony
When face to face with thee

No one knows
From where
You have come
Who's little flower
Getting raped
Starved and burned

I still spot
that precious
Twinkle in your eye
For childhood does
Have deep roots
And innocence
There still thrives

Sad about homeless urchins, the street children of India....nalini