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#MONDAY’S PROSE THIS CHILD; ON THE ROAD


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Through my myopic eyes, a fleeting image of a little boy is formed on my retina
A little boy in a little suit,
Treading the familiar bushy routes before him
The boy had neither escort nor directives
And surely, he needed none
For a 4 yr old on the road possesses more maturity than a 10 year old in ‘comfort’

Swiftly, she navigated through cars held in traffic
An adventurous smile tugging at her split lips
Providing snacks for impatient car-owners
And though panting from car-chasing,
She had a visible life of passionate content
She probably planned to get off the street,
Forsake her hypothetical ‘street-urchin boyfriend’,
Give up this demeaning way of living,
But I feared she wouldn’t!
She hadn’t been wired to get off the street
And sadly, she was too content to stage a forced exit.

Children on the road and teenagers of the road,
Not choosing to be this vulnerable
Yet hooded and shrouded in the cold,
Filled with shreds of hope that the future held bliss
Maybe it did;
But what if it didn’t?
 
Help a child on the street today,
Speak kind words,
Leave traces of kind deeds
For you never know whose footsteps would tread yours to freedom
More mature they may be, but more vulnerable they equally are

And would hold on to every shred of love they get

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