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[sid] => 15225
[catid] => 1
[aid] => Mick
[title] => A CHILD'S DREAM
[time] => 2003-03-30 13:35:00
[hometext] => This poem looks at this cruel world through the eyes of a small poor boy who is forced to earn his living polishing shoes in the mean streets of Mumbai.This is how the boy wants the world to be!!
[bodytext] => THE TIRED CHILD LAID BETWEEN THE IMPORTED CARS,
HIS HANDS MESSED IN BLACK POLISH SCARS. TOO TIRED TO WEEP IN A WORLD HARSH AND REAL, HE BREEZED INTO A LAND TOO IDEAL. A WORLD CREATED BY THE FAIRY MAGICAL ROD, RULED JUSTLY BY THE ALL KNOWING GOD. THE PEOPLE SIMPLE;WITH A HONEST RADIANCE, BASKED IN GOD'S OWN BRILLIANCE. THE FLOWERS SO BEAUTIFUL;THE AIR SO PURE, WITH HEALTH RADIANT,ALWAYS TOO SURE. A WORLD FREE FROM DANGEROUS WEEDS, INCLUDING THOSE OF POISONOUS CASTE AND CREEDS. A WORLD OF SACRED CHIME AND RHYME, A WORLD DEVOID OF DIRTY GREED AND CRIME. A WORLD UNITED WITH SINCERE DEDICATION, EVERYBODY BRED IN THE WARM GLOW OF EDUCATION. A LOUD STUPIFYING NOISE EMITTED IT'S MATTER, THE CHILD WOKE UP TO AN INCESSANT NOISY CLATTER. A HEAVY HAND GAVE A PINCHING SHARP JERK, IT IS TIME TO GET TO EVERYDAY'S WORK. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 263 [topic] => 48 [informant] => Ravi [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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