i thought i was heaven-sent
but my mother wail and cry
when i entered the world.
i thought i have everything i wanted
once my father spank me because
i took my cousin's lollipop.
i thought that orphans should be pitied
and all children with parents
are the luckiest people in the earth.
and i heard mothers who sell
their own daughters as prostitutes,
fathers who raped their own daughters.
i thought play was invented for children
and work for grow ups.
i met a three year old street urchin
taking odd jobs to survive each day.
and a fifty something year old president
who fool around for a living.
oh, a same world... but a different place.
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