The Future Foretold – Happy Children’s Day

Futures Foretold? The rag in hand, twin to the one adorned Begrimed, beloused, eyes deadened Pleas for alms, from the dead alive And yet, to them, belongs the future Mothers violated, fathers demaled Yesterday’s farms, now a killing field Innocence lost in paradise turned hell Offsprings of a people estranged Happy Children’s Day, they crow How happy can a child be When they’ve been robbed Of all that makes the child, a child To glimpse where a nation is headed Examine how her children fare Observe to what purpose they are directed And you will see the future foretold… DF