TRAFFIC LIGHT CHILD

Mummy SEE those children on the streets

As the traffic-light turns RED
They surge into the streets
Washing windscreens
Begging and hawking for money
The traffic-light goes GREEN
They scamper around.


They are shooed 
They are scorned 
They are abused and called names
Some are offered token changes by motorist


Mummy why are these children selling on the streets?
Mummy why does he want to wash your windscreen?

Why don’t I see these children in my school?

Why am I in school and they are not?

I want to be a Doctor when a grow up

I wonder what the children on the streets  will want to be?

Street Child washing windscreen @ traffic-light

Street Child waiting with bottle and brush,
expectant or dejected?