A Child’s Dream
By: Mikayla Moxley
By: Mikayla Moxley
Wanted for tiny features,
With miniature fingers that slip into every dangerous place.
In constant fear of having nine in a place there were ten.
To obey as they put my life in jeopardy.
Working only for a roof and meals.
My peers are stripped of their lengthy lives.
Long, treacherous hours that I work without words.
Saving a couple nickels, hiring those who don’t understand salaries.
My little frame slips between the whirling frames within every machine,
That could be crushed in seconds.
I hold on to a hope for the future,
A world where children can stay children.
Mikayla Moxley is a junior at Linganore High School in Frederick, MD. At Linganore, she is a member of the National Honors, National English Honor Society, and National Spanish Honor Society. Her love to write started when she was little, and allows her to be creative and get a new perspective on many ideas and concepts. She is inspired to write by all the things around her, so when she was listening to her brother explain a project he was doing in his history class about the children working in dangerous factories during Industrial Revolution, she got the idea to write this Drabble. She is inspired by her own life, similar to her favorite author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
With miniature fingers that slip into every dangerous place.
In constant fear of having nine in a place there were ten.
To obey as they put my life in jeopardy.
Working only for a roof and meals.
My peers are stripped of their lengthy lives.
Long, treacherous hours that I work without words.
Saving a couple nickels, hiring those who don’t understand salaries.
My little frame slips between the whirling frames within every machine,
That could be crushed in seconds.
I hold on to a hope for the future,
A world where children can stay children.
Mikayla Moxley is a junior at Linganore High School in Frederick, MD. At Linganore, she is a member of the National Honors, National English Honor Society, and National Spanish Honor Society. Her love to write started when she was little, and allows her to be creative and get a new perspective on many ideas and concepts. She is inspired to write by all the things around her, so when she was listening to her brother explain a project he was doing in his history class about the children working in dangerous factories during Industrial Revolution, she got the idea to write this Drabble. She is inspired by her own life, similar to her favorite author F. Scott Fitzgerald.