Just walk in my shoes

I see life from

a different view

the down side of life

not so many have seen

from a  child of the war

to this old man of dreams

Poverty, cruelty

all this I have seen

‘twas reality for me

 never a dream

but I grow angry

in my twilight days

the horror and pain

is just the same

cruelty to children

has never changed

Not just in my country

this cruelty is seen

‘Tis spread over the world

across all seven seas

children do suffer

needlessly

All kinds of harm

are inflicted on kids

by carers and parents

uncles and aunts

unspeakable horrors

these children endure

mostly by ones

very close to you!

Peter Wicks....

In some families there are the"black sheep" who will never fit in

they are reviled and abused and nearly battered to death, I can vouch

for this because I was one of these children and in my case it was my

mother.War time Britain was a harsh place to live if you came from a

poverty stricken home in London and your mother came straight out of hell.