Step Mother Poem by Preston Mwiinga

Step mother, you have taken your step child for granted.
You think mistreating and abusing her is a way of life.
You have abused and taken her fundamental right to education.
Everyday she is on the streets selling mineral water.
You have enough but you just want to punish her.
When she is home, she is your maid and your children personal assistant.
Without reasons you abuse her physically.
She has bruises as if she plays wrestling and yet they are your beatings.
She is silent like a rock coast hit by the waves.
Her father can't speak for her, you have tamed him.
The little a girl cries all day long as she is hopeless.
In the streets she is sexually abused, at home she is physically and emotionally abused.
I pray you transform because your children can too become step children to another woman and they might suffer harder than her.
Protect the Child.