Smile I said to the boy in gold

Don’t worry my dear, it is only your toes

You won’t understand

Till you’re older you see

But I do this for you, out of mercy

“Leave me alone!” the boy cried in fear

But I didn’t, or could not, even hear

I was focused you see

On repaying his kindness

He had been nice to me and I could see through my blindness

He was the only child that day

Who escaped from the man who had been on his way

He had cried and cried being left behind

But he was glad when he saw through their mind

They would never make it

They would never come home

They were taken and sold into parts unknown.