Child Abuse Fears

Child Abuse Fears These mythically beautiful Conspicuously colored Delicate juvenile birds Need to venture out of the nest Take off, the open aisle Spread their wings And learn to fly Fly freely, low and high In this lofty infinite sky I too, wanted to pull out The barriers of my security And let my child glide In immensely explorative sky But then the thought of Unclean and hateful Wide winged, large and vicious Oversized predators sharing the same air space Always in search of their preys scared me to the extent That I was overwhelmed And denied the freedom To my nestling. Time to time I buck myself up again To open the door Of the gilded custodial cage Let my broodling explore The grandly complex outer world Gain the power to control Own actions Increase the richness of real-time experience But then the threat stimulus Triggers my mind Forcing me to imagine What if This young and feeble fledgling Falls prey to The cruel and ugly masculinity Of ferocious and vulturous Beasts of prey- The pedophilic carnivores! I step back Enhance the protection Seizing the privileges Of childhood from my little one! #MywordsOnMycanvas Saima Qureshi ©️