Children For Sale Poem by Eric Cockrell

'children for sale,
...children for sale, '
the street vendor cries...

'we've got all kinds...
...black and white, brown
....and red...
..boys and girls, take your choice!
...spin the wheel, take a chance! '

who chooses what opportunities,
what chances, what quality of life?
how much education?
what kind of family life?

a degree, a job, a future?
or work with the hands, skilled labor?
or menial work, no work at all....
a life of crime, taught by the prisons?

hope, or starvation?
free, or oppressed?
loved, or hated?
finding a place, following a dream...
or cast to the side?

who chooses?
and why should anyone choose?

'children for sale,
...children for sale...'
the street vendor cries!