FOR BOYS
“JUVENILE DELINQUENT”
Am I a juvenile delinquent? I’m a teenager, I’m young, young at heart and in mind. In this position, I’m
carefree, I enjoy doing nothing but to drink the wine of pleasure. I seldom go to school, nobody cares!
But instead, you can see me roaming around, standing at the nearby canto (street). Or else standing
beside a jukebox stand playing the nerve tickling bugaloo. Those are the reasons, why people, you
branded me delinquent, a juvenile delinquent.
My parents ignored me, my teachers sneered at me and my friends, they neglected me. One night I
asked my mother to teach me how to appreciate the values in life. Would you care what she told me?
"Stop bothering me! Can’t you see? I had to dress up for my mahjong session, some other time my
child". I turned to my father to console me, but, what a wonderful thing he told me. "Child, here’s 500
bucks, get it and enjoy yourself, go and ask your teachers that question". And in school, I heard nothing
but the echoes of the voices of my teachers torturing me with these words. "Why waste your time in
studying, you can’t even divide 100 by 5! Go home and plant sweet potatoes". I may have the looks of
Zac Afron, the calmly voice of Bruno Mars. But that’s not what you can see in me. Here’s a young boy
who needs counsel to enlighten his way and guidance to strengthen his life into contentment. Is this the
boy whom you commented a juvenile delinquent?
FOR GIRLS
“BAD GIRL”
Hey! Every Body seems to be staring at me. You! You! All of you! How dare you to stare at me? Why? Is
it because I’m a bad girl? A bad girl I am, A good for nothing teen ager, a problem child? That’s what you
call me! I smoke. I drink. I gamble at my young tender age. I lie. I cheat, and I could even kill, if I have
too. Yes, I’m a bad girl, but where are my parents? You! You! You are my good parents? My good elder
brother & sister in this society where I live? Look…look at me…What have you done to me? You have
pampered and spoiled me, neglected me when I needed you most! In trusted me to a yaya, who’s
intelligent was much lower than mine! While you go about your parties, your meetings and gambling
sessions… Thus… I drifted away from you! Longing for a father’s love, yearning for a mother’s care! As I
grow up, everything changes! You too have change! You spent more time in your pokers, mahjong
tables, bars and night clubs. You even landed on the headline of the newspaper as crook, peddlers and
racketeers. Now, you call my name; accuse me in everything I do to myself? Tell me! How good you are?
If you really wish to ensure my future Then hurry…. hurry back home! Where I await you, because I need
you… Protect me from all evil influences that will threaten at my very own understanding… But if I am
bad, really bad…then, you’ve got to help me! Help me! Oh please…Help me!