![]() Would you care what she told me? "Stop bothering me! Can’t you see? I had to dress up for my mahjong session, some other time my child". One night I asked my mother to teach me how to appreciate the values in life. My parents ignored me, my teachers sneered at me and my friends, they neglected me. Those are the reasons, why people, you branded me delinquent, a juvenile delinquent. Or else standing beside a jukebox stand playing the nerve tickling bugaloo. But instead you can see me roaming around. In this position, I’m carefree, I enjoy doing nothing but to drink the wine of pleasure. Now, you call me names, accuse me of everything I do to myself? Tell me! How good are you? If you really wish to ensure my future… Then hurry….hurry back home! Where I await you, because I need you… Protect me from all evil influences that will threathen at my very own understanding… But if I am bad, really bad…then, you’ve got to help me! Help me! Oh please…Help me! Juvenile Delinquent Am I a juvenile delinquent? I’m a teenager, I’m young, young at heart in mind. You even landed on the headlines of the newspaper as crooks, pedlars and racketeers. My good elder brother and sister in this society where I live? Look…look at me…What have you done to me? You have pampered and spoiled me, neglected me when I needed you most! Entrusted me to a yaya, whose intelligence was much lower than mine! While you go about your parties, your meetings and gambling session… Thus… I drifted away from you! Longing for a father’s love, yearning for a mother’s care! As I grew up, everything changed! You too have changed! You spent more time in your poker, majong tables, bars and night clubs. You! You! You are my good parents? Where are my parents to guide me? My teachers to give me inspirations? My friends, when I play? I’m lazy and irresponsible. I cheat, and I could even kill, If I have too. ![]() I am lost…confused…I don’t know what to do with myself… Yes, I’m a bad girl, but where are my parents? I lie. You! You! All of you! How dare you to stare at me? Why? Is it because I’m a bad girl? A bad girl I am, A good for nothing teen ager, a problem child? That’s what you call me! " Hey yo lazy girl! Why waste your time studying those things? When up to now you can’t even multiply seven by nine? Go home and don’t bother me!!!" I smoke. ![]() But what a wonderful world word he did tell me… " Child, I have to finish my overtime work…Here’s 500 pesos, go and ask your teacher about that question…" Sadly,I attended my class… But I heard nothing but the echoing voice of my teacher,torturing me with her words… Bad Girl Hey! Everybody seems to be staring at me. ![]() Help me please! Would you like to know what she told me? I am lost… Help me… She said… " Can’t you see, I have to hurry up for my majong session! " So I turned to my father to console me. by Dhang Where now…I’m confused… I am a girl, young in heart and in mind… I am carefree, I enjoy doing nothing but play,play and play…I seldom go to school but hmp! nobody cares! Instead,you will see me roaming around standing at the nearby canto, or hanging around at the sari-sari store standing beside the jukebox stand… Somebody, please help me… You say that the world is beautiful, why is it treating me this way? Hear me please! One day I asked I asked my mother to teach me how to behave,to live, and appreciate all the beautiful things in life. ![]() The Lost Girl When I try to study, I get punished for not being able to answer. ![]()
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