Stolen childhood is more than a crime
Street Child

abandoned child
silently
swept
along
a current
of callous human race
between shabby buildings
and filthy hotels
hovels of the needy
and the dispossessed
oblivious
now
soulless
empty eyes
unseeing
soiled
windswept streets
unfeeling
lost
emotions
unheeding sirens
heralding another night
of violence
and death
numb
ravished soul
of stolen youth
too weary
to care