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Just a child

May 23, 2012
By fidgetyfrog GOLD, Panchkula, Other
fidgetyfrog GOLD, Panchkula, Other
12 articles 40 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"- Dr. Seuss


Scrawny, lean and wiry
With a mop of hair
And eyes so mild,
He was just a child.

And yet,

He sat around the house all day,
In corners and cupboards ,you see.
Whispering and moaning
And talking to himself,
And ever so often, scream would he.

Rumours spread about the town,
Of the strange boy around.
His parents said he was shy, was mild,
Oh let him be!
He is just a child.

And yet,

He said he wasn’t lying.
He said they moved and talked to him.
He said he was telling the truth.
The shadows were coming for him.

His parents sent him to school,
To a counsellor,
To a physiatrist.
He’d be checked and scanned and filed,
Then sent home.
He was just a child.

And yet,

The police was called
The day he went missing.
They traced the area,
And took time in listening
To his mother who cried out in pain,
But all in vain,
He was just a child.


The author's comments:
The important tends to be overseen easily.

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on Jun. 1 2012 at 1:33 pm
fidgetyfrog GOLD, Panchkula, Other
12 articles 40 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"- Dr. Seuss

:cries: I'm still hoping it does >__<

on Jun. 1 2012 at 1:31 pm
fidgetyfrog GOLD, Panchkula, Other
12 articles 40 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"- Dr. Seuss

thanks casey :)

on Jun. 1 2012 at 1:16 pm
TheNerdGirl PLATINUM, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
26 articles 28 photos 34 comments

Favorite Quote:
Shoot for the moon because even if you miss you'll still end up among the star's

I love it froggy its so different then mpst peoples poems of love of pain its so good it should have gone to the magizeen

on Jun. 1 2012 at 1:10 pm
CaseyJean BRONZE, Rustburg, Virginia
4 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost

This is very well written, I can totally feel the emotion coming out of it. Keep writing!