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Child Labour
Contributed by
mohan
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Saturday, 5th August 2006 @ 03:32:24 AM in AEST
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CHILD LABOUR
Child labour is a despicable evil in a society,
Sadly it persists in very many a country.
Children are valuable asset to a nation,
As they mould the future civilization.
At a time when they should be carrying books,
They carry, at construction sites, loads of bricks.
When they should be going to school to learn,
With heavy heart, they go to work place to earn.
When they should be having fun at their tender age,
They toil and sweat all day to earn meager wage.
When other children dash cheerfully to the play ground,
After hard work they return home like hunting hound.
The other children go on outing and enjoy eating candies,
At a dingy place, the child labourers laboriously roll beedies.*
When others with uniforms, march to school beamingly,
Unkempt and untidy, they go to work quite unwillingly.
In many homes, they are cheap replacement for dish washers,
And in restaurants they are preferred for vacuum cleaners.
The poverty stricken parents sell them as bonded labourers,
Thus their fate is sealed; soon they are on streets as beggars.
The bodily injuries inflicted by their brutal masters,
Are telltale marks of cruelty of the diabolic monsters.
Seminars and conferences are organized and laws enacted,
But the abuse, a shame to humanity, sadly continues unabated.
They have but one childhood, once lost, it is lost for ever,
Like a bud that withers, before blooming into a flower.
Oh, God what crime these innocent children have done?
You too remain a mute witness to their plight, how sadden?
*Beediesa tobacco product, a lower and crude version of cigarette.
Copyright ©
mohan
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Re: Child Labour
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by FRANCO on
Sunday, 11th February 2007 @ 07:08:13 AM AEST
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It is indeed a miserable thing to have happened to human society, I fully agree with your poem and appreciate Your effort to have taken-up this sensitive topic. well done sir.
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