The Homeless Children

An estimated number of 100 million homeless children in the world today,
Every day they roam the streets hungry and helpless wishing they had a place to stay.
In the early hour of dawn, when the world is still asleep,
       There are children on the street,
Whose tears they cannot keep,
With no blanket for warmth, no roof above their heads.
They wonder through the darkness,
The sidewalks where they tread.
Their little hearts are broken,
Their souls worn and thin,
They ask for just a moment where they might begin.
A moment to feel safe, a place they can roam.
     In the day they go around begging and at night they go around searching,
Searching for a place to lay,
As they lay, fear grips their hearts
Because they wonder if they will live to see another day,
 out there is not safe.
Nobody knows the horrors the children get to face each passing day,
Nobody cares what they eat or where they stay,
It’s a crazy world so everybody minds their business,
Stays on their own lane.
What a shame!
       These children are not on the streets by fate or by mistake,
Somebody has to take the blame,
And so, I asked, who is to blame?
Is it the teenage girl who had premarital sex and got pregnant,
Got rejected and was told to abort but was too scared,
So she gave birth to a baby nobody wanted,
She felt dejected and threw the baby into a trash can and relocated?
Or is it the kind hearted man that took pity on the innocent child and adopted,
Took home to his wife,
And the wife was so angry and refused to take care of a child
That wasn’t really her own and from there his nightmare begun.
Let’s build a brighter future,
Where no child walks alone,
A future full of promise,
Where every child has grown.
Together, we can change the world,
One act of love at a time.
And give the homeless children a chance to truly shine.

Written by
NAABA MADINATU SEIDU
(Student – Akwamuman SHS, Akosombo)