See The Boy
see the boy
growing up in New Zealand
see the boy in Otara hanging in his hood
see the boy going to school
see the boy get into trouble
see the boy very angry
cause he didn’t have breakfast
see the boy go home
see the boy struggling to live, he thinks he’s better off dead
see the boy going to his boss
see the boy selling drugs
so he can have a feed and feed his family
see the boy, see the boy
see the boy at the old kindy, next to Clydemore Primary in Otara
Then Weymouth Primary, Weymouth Intermediate in Rewa
Finally back to Otara
Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Middle School
See the boy shipped away from Manurewa
From the street trouble
See the boy trying to find a family on the streets.
Thank you Selina Tusitala Marsh for inspiring our children to open up and write such moving poems about their own lives. It is a hard thing to make children connect with a poem in such a meaningful way.
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