For The Love Of A Child Poem by Janice M Pickett

I want to share a story
about a little child
how from a tender budding rose
she changed to something wild
This girl was just like anyone
longing for youth and love
but what she got was something else
no blessing from above

Her parents started fighting
they had no time you see
to be the loving family
and the parents they should be
They struggled every waking minute
to live and to survive
They started yelling all the time
it hurt to be alive

It only took a few short months
for the Father to walk out
the child felt better in one small way
she could no longer hear them shout
Then other men would turn up
they took her Mothers time
and the Mother spent more time with them
but money came in fine

The child saw the kind of things
a child should not see
she began to get the message
that love is never free
So before she was a woman
and before she had the right
she gave herself for money
on a dark and lonely night
The moral of this story
is a message from above
never have a child
if you don't know how to love