This Was Allowed To Happen Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Who today can say,
Someone intentionally...
Came to steal an innocent childhood away?
And where were they,
When this was allowed to happen?

Even hiding under a rock,
An innocence that had been...
Has long been stopped,
By the invention of the internet.
And before that came into view to be accused,
No child had gone to school...
Without sitting up all night and not to watch cartoons.
On a TV to give undivided attention to absorb,
Every temptation meant and to them sent...
With facts learned about life to then suppress,
For accepted delusions to address as kept values.

Who today can say,
Someone intentionally...
Came to steal an innocent childhood away?
And where were they,
When this was allowed to happen?