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The Killed Innocence -
(A Poem on Child abuse)

by Rakhi Dhawan
(New Delhi,India)

I am a happy child
With a wonderful smile
I get good grades
The teacher's apple-pie

My mummy loves me
My daddy alike
But when my uncle loves me
I so dislike

I hate the touch
When he touches my butt
He keens to unwrap
In the warmth of his lap

I feel scared to share
Do nothing in despair
My uncle is so big
His fingers, his fist

I get the penny for the pain
A chocolate, a dress, an express train
Those keep lying in the foyer
I wish to trash them
Being a destroyer

Oh mummy! If you could just see
What it has been on me
I get nightmares even in day
I will be out of this love someday

I am smiling, wish you could see me cry
I am dancing on a dead man's choir
The sweet lullabies he made me hear
Hurts me and my cuddly teddy bear

If only you had been right close to me
You could have seen the dead child in me
If only you had ears, to hear my cries
I would have been the apple of your eyes

No red, yellow, green or purples
I am black
Wish I could build my rainbow of colours
And get my childhood back !!!

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(A Poem on Child abuse)

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May 15, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Thx Geetashree
by: Rakhi Dhawan

Thank you dear for your kind words..!! :) I feel happy to see that we share a common thread as females and have sensitivity and thoughtfulness towards the issues related to children..the future of our nation..!!
May 15, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Thx Dewashish
by: Anonymous

Thanks dear for the appreciation....!!If it really touched your heart ..pls. help to spread the awareness among the kids..!! :)
May 14, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Aah...!
by: Geetashree Chatterjee

A very sensitive issue neatly expressed which touches every chord in the heart!
May 13, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Thanks Vimala :)
by: Rakhi Dhawan

Thank you dear for having an ear for the unspoken words and having a heart to feel the pain..!! I wrote this poem last month i.e. in April, which was marked as CSA awareness month.May God gives us wisdom to spread the awareness among the children..to help them to come out of this hell..may God bless every father and mother the foresightedness to be able to protect their child from the shadows of the vultures..
May 13, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Very touching n true...!
by: Dewashish Verma

Very touching n true...!
May 13, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Child abuse
by: vimala ramu

Ahhh, the silent cry of an abused child, understood by every child who has gone through it but helpless to express it.

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