Sleeping child

It's time to break the silence, yet again. Perhaps it's afterall not a quiet day. In the very morning, it's been a chaotic day. Probably the staff started to think if their boss was having a mood swing. But incompetency had actually driven me up to the wall. Don't ask why but it's so aggitating, even the smallest matter matters! Hello....why is the toilet sooo stinky? Aren't people smelling here?..

Before moving out for lunch to break the agitated mood, this boy caught my attention. His mother was carrying him outside the waiting hall under such a heated weather. It was afterall mid day. He was obviously exhausted and not well. He had been accompanying his mother the whole night in the hospital as there was no one at home to take care of him. He was 6. His other elder siblings were at home taken care by the eldest sister who had to skip school just to help out at home while the mother was away. Father was working elsewhere.

Then, gently I offered them to come into my office. The aircond certainly was very soothing at that hour of time. I offered my couch so that the boy could rest a lil bit while I made a conversation with the mother. At times I would catch a glimpse of the child and a minute later he was dozing off already. He slept so comfortably like it's been years he had not been sleeping. Not even a cry being away from the mother. The time had come where I had to go for an appointment, so I offered them to be put at another office with air cond as I needed to lock my own office but I didn't know how. Then the boy opened his eyes, and grabbing the pillow, pushing his head towards it. He laid like an innocent kitten. He looked at me. My heart broke. He certainly enjoyed so much sleeping on my couch rather than sleeping in his wooden warm house. How cruel if I would to interrupt his once luxurious sleep?

My lil heart was whispering to him. I know it's not your fault. I know it's not your wish to come into this impoverished world of yours. I know you don't have a choice. I know there are many people who are taking things for granted even this lil couch of mine, probably they would have thought twice before laying the bottoms on top. I know how you feel. But I also know you won't be asking why, because you are so innocent. If only I could give you the priviledge of other kids having, if only I could let you sleep here for the night, if only I could enlighten your parents that you are special, and all they need is a special kid and not a dozen(kids) who labour at their(parents) own expense.

But I can't coz I am just an ordinary human being who has all the shortcomings like you. I can't change a thing coz the world is like an ecology, as nature helms to take its course. I could only watch from the corner and pray, pray so that innocent people like you would one day understand the meaning of life, and never repeat the mistakes of your parents once did.