Excluded!

We’re left behind,

Few opportunities,

We’re destined to poverty.

Yet with God’s gift of talents.

Not everyone is gifted on the book.

Please include us in your plans.

Plans to take the country afar.

We want to earn from poetry too,

Be given grants for music,

A chance to contribute to economy too.

We are children yes,

But we too have a future to make.

Please realise what’s at stake.

One day I’ll have a family to feed.

I too have dreams to fulfill.

I plan of leaving behind a legacy.

That’s why include me!

My mind can’t master the A, B, C’s,

But I can sing.

I can compose a poem.

I can dance.

I can swim.

I’m the forgotten child from the slums,

Whose future is very bleak.

Taunted for my lack of intelligence,

I believe I’m a failure

Include me in your plans,

So I can too have purpose for life,

So I too can have a future!

@Advocate Charity