PABLO

 

Meet Pablo

The unbridled child

With an unbridled laugh

Ready to take on the world

Pablo primed with potential.

The voice of vitality

Eager to know

And eager to grow.

Pablo 1.0.

Pablo at a hundred percent

 

Meet Pablo

After perceived parents turn perpetrators

Their unwelcome hands

Gropping and grabbing, touching and rubbing

The tempo turns if Pablo resists

Shoving, slapping, hitting , smashing.

The hand insists

In the silent safety of his home.

SSHHH! You were never to know.

Pablo deflated

Pablo diminished.

Pablo 2.0

Pablo at sixty percent

 

Meet Pablo

Covering and concealing his wounds

Confidence and concentration short,

Tempers too running short.

Pablo skulks in silence

Fearful of verbal vehemence

From friend and foe alike

Pablo a shadow of his former self

Class king turned class clown

Teachers’ rebukes send him further down.

Pablo crashed and cut to shards

Pablo 3.0.

Pablo at thirty percent

 

Meet Pablo,

Voice extinguished

Spirit diminished

Acting out and casting doubt

Pablo now a menace

Perpetually seeking vengeance

All in a cry for help.

 

Pablo’s cry now noted

Concern neighbours come forward

And counselors soon alerted

To investigate and interrogated.

Abusive parents prosecuted

Teachers and friends advised

Pablo given needed treatment

When child services are alerted

One –one- six dialed

 

Pablo now rescued

Pablo rehabilitated

Pablo reinvigorated

Pablo rejuvenated

Meet Pablo 4.0

Pablo back at a hundred percent