PREJUDICED
She walked along
in the pouring rain, No umbrellas, coat, or scarf to warm
her, No friends to talk to. Just one mistake her parents
made, They didn't want a child, All they did was bully
her, And put her in a mental home, They saw that she
didn't need to be there. After all of
those long hard working years, Her parents were meant to take
her home, But she ended up in a doorway. Her company was
something to be enjoyed, But still people walk by and assume;
Probably taking drugs, that's where they belong, Probably
into drink and things like that; She has a harder life than
any of the people that assume, They don't think about that.
She hears all of the comments, When darkness comes she
dreams, Dreams about all the ifs, What if she had been
sat there like royalty or dressed up, Then what would they
say? If one person would just help her, If people would
give her a job... Then daylight comes Back to the cold,
Scraping together the bits of change that people throw to her
in sympathy. She had a face like a dirty candlestick, Polish
her up and she'll look like diamonds, Clothes can be changed;
But what does that tell you about someone apart from how they
dress, Twenty years of her life wasted from no fault of her
own, Just think next time, out on your own, A
personality like gold, A face as pretty as a rose in
disguise, Eyes like mouths, they just say everything, But
nothing, no food, no strength, no warmth. N. J.
A girl from a High School |
OUR SECOND
CONFERENCE We
are holding our second conference this year at Wolfson
College, Oxford.
"Youth
Lost Through Social Exclusion"
25th November
1998 Speakers will include: Lord William
of Mostyn Minister of State dor Prisions and Probation
Val Chinn Chief Executive of the Big Step (Big
Issue) Paul Wotton Drugs and Youth Policy Advisor
for the London Metropolitan Police Dr Alan Prout
Reader in Sociology, School for Comparative and Applied Social
sciences at the University of Hull Colin Glover
Director of London Connection Rev James McCartney
Director of T.H.O.M.A.S. (Those on The Margins of a Society)
Cost of the Conference is £95.00
Bookings: |
Marie
Coyne Conference Organiser St Anne's House, France
Street Blackburn BB2 1LX Tel: 01254 59240 Fax:
01254 56884 Email:
edges@globalnet.co.uk |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We are
grateful to Mgr.Richard Atherton from the Archdiocese of
Liverpool who has kindly donated the proceeds of his new book to
our organisation 'Praying the Prayer of the
Church' by Mgr. Richard Atherton. 1998 Redemptorist
publications |
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