(based as if a child in the slums
has wrote this in their diary)

23rd July 2016

Why should deprivation be fair?
HUNDREDS of children go without care.
Collecting water with bare feet everyday,
much to their dismay.

Everyday I am alone,
All I wish for is a home.
Why must people be so rude?
It is not my fault that I am half nude.

I walk to get water for hours and hours on end,
all I want is just one special friend.
Sometimes we don’t have enough to eat,
please let me have this special treat.

All I hope for is my family to be fine,
why must this cruel world be so out of line?
Every time I wake up I feel so tired,
I have to go to work or I might get fired.

Everyday our lives are unexpected,
All we want is to be respected.
I have to earn my pay each and every day,
Even that is not enough, please stop this cruel way.