My Heart Goes Out to the Kids

(This poem is dedicated to all the kids in the world who are deprived of the love they so desperately need.)

 

My heart goes out to the kids in the world

Who deal with unbearable grief--

Whose treatment by their loveless parents

Is cruel beyond belief.

 

My heart goes out to the kids in the world

Whose folks don't comprehend

Or care how their heartless behavior hurts

Their children in the end.

 

My heart goes out to the kids in the world

Whose lives are bleak and austere--

Who, rather than live with endless pain,

Would rather disappear.

 

My heart goes out to the kids in the world

Whose parents have no right

To even claim that role for themselves

When filled with so much spite.

 

My heart goes out to the kids in the world

Who struggle and suffer alone--

Who have to endure such misery

Through no fault of their own.

 

My heart goes out to the kids in the world

Who sadly unlike me

Have parents who didn't provide them with

Love and security.

 

My heart goes out the kids in the world

When I see what they've missed

By having parents whose hearts are stone,

And, yes, they do exist.

 

My heart goes out to the kids in the world;

I wonder what it will take

For much more loving kindness to thrive

And fewer hearts to ache.

 

-by Bob B (2-9-22)