The Child Labourer’s Lament

by

Sridhar Menon

How I wish I could go to School
Said the Child Labourer
I would have been a person better
without my tools
without an employer
So much like a wrecker


Oh,how I feel jealous
When I see them at School
Learning,reading, playing
Having fun and frolic
I say to myself I want to go to school
without my tools
without an employer
So much like a wrecker


How I want to be an engineer
Become a great pioneer
Of all the things that with electricity work
But alas, how I wish I would not end up doing this work
Every now and then I say to myself
I want to go to school
without my tools
without an employer
So much like a wrecker
 

But I,I keep on boosting my confidence
As they say that a pot of gold
Lies at the end of every rainbow
And I have made up my mind
I will go to School
without my tools
without an employer
So much like a wrecker!