A bony child, a sick child 

Wades through muddy water, stumbles over battered roads

A quiet child, a trodden child

Eats with hunger, with greediness 

A shy child, a violent child

Runs after street vendors and dogs, cons the benevolent 

A street, a war, a game to play.

A bony child, a sick child is her-

Me.

 

A traumatized child, a ragged child

Stomping around hospital grounds, her belly moving

A pregnant child, a child

Screaming with pain, cursing at men

A child, a child

Raising another, settling for years of irrational depression 

A traumatized child, a child is her-

Me.