Rhyme time
Child labour

Let’s vow to halt this great menace

Bitter are the fruits borne by child labour

Which isn’t in mankind’s favour

Precious are the days of childhood

Is this the age of collecting wood?

Childhood, an age of fun, frolic and smiling gestures

An age of playing, enjoying and having adventures

How shameful!

Made to work at such a tender age

For a little almost

non-existing wage

Working in industries, mines and farms

Toiling hard with their tender

And delicate arms

"Our national progress is at alarm"

Let’s think for a while

Is it justified with little juvenile

They are the future of our nation

Who need to be behoved with education

These innocent children are our nation’s jewels

Then why are they dwelling in hells

Bearing and enduring all their misery

Let us enlighten their lives with history and chemistry

There’s an immediate need of a social reform

Let’s stop this devastating storm

Abolition of forced labour is the need of hour

And equality needs to come in power

When will there be a change in their fate?

The nation still awaits that date.

Nipun Goyal, X-A, Kundan Vidya Mandir, Ludhiana