Child Sexual Exploitation is something that is not often talked about, and yet something very prevalent in the life of young children. Often it can start of as something innocent and small and sometimes it can grow into more. Either way, education and protection are the key.

"They hold the key to my future, but I try and play a different chord." (Extract from the poem)

Being myself has always been difficult. The idea that I should be unapologetically me when simultaneously apologising for a few others who "look like" me. How can I be truly, proudly and unapologetically black, while trying to not be stereotypically black? Loud, rude, aggressive. Those are isolated incidents not assimilated traits.

I wrote this poem at the beginning of March. A lot went down during the months following; marches, protests and petitions. I don't know what I had expected to change however I do know that it has to start somewhere. When I look back at all the poetry I have written in the past regarding poetry, there is no difference between the issues then and now.