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Hmmm, what unnamable hurt welled up in the tears that rolled down that young boy’s face as he rode down in the elevator with his mother?

It was random chance that I happened to be in the elevator when they got on. My presence didn’t seem to make a difference. I might as well have been invisible.

He was perhaps 10 – dressed in a soccer uniform complete with shin pads and soccer shoes. But soccer was the last thing on his mind. He tried hard to hold back the tears but the heart ran too deep to be denied.

There was pain and anger in his mother’s expression. A pain much too sharp edged to have been caused by anything he did. But he was the unfortunate victim she chose to channel her anger towards.

My heart went out to him as he took upon his small shoulders far too great a weight. The weight of being hurt by someone you love. I believe it was not the first time he had done so.

No child should have to walk that road. No child should have to shed that kind of tears. No child should have to suffer that kind of damage to his fragile psyche.

That unfortunate boy was a metaphor for injustice in so many ways and on so many levels. There is no injustice greater than a child forced to endure an adult’s pain. Childhood flies by all too fast in our high pressure, fast-paced society. It’s a crying shame when even that short time is stolen away.

I will pray for that boy. I hope you will as well because he surely needs it.

~ Michael Robert Dyet is the author of “Until the Deep Water Stills – An Internet-enhanced Novel” – double winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2009. Visit Michael’s website at www.mdyetmetaphor.com or the novel online companion at www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog.

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