Children`s Rights: A Nonkilling Plea to Adults
POETRY FORMAT, 8 Apr 2013
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
On behalf of the world`s children, these rhymed reflections are presented:
As children, we are happy to know that we have the right to play
so please, adults, also take seriously what we now want to say
As children, we are told that we have the right to a family life of dignity
so please, adults, show that of LOVE in your family there`s no scarcity
As children, we are told that we have the right to be guided
so please, adults be kind when you want us to be chided
As children, we are told we will be educated to be productive
so please, adults, help our education also to be constructive
As children, we are told we have the right our creativity to enhance
so please, adults, help our global citizenship responsibility advance
As children, we are told we have the right to be taught what is known
so please, adults, help us be strong and never to fear the unknown
As children, we are told we have the right to a life of spirituality
so please, adults, provide us with that soul-supporting possibility
As children, we know that to a world of violence and killing we are exposed
so please, adults, fulfill your human rights obligation:
A Nonkilling World Should Be Globally Proposed.
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Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author, among others, of the book Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai’i). Downloadable at www.nonkilling.org. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.
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