A six-year-old HIV-positive child named Along lives all alone in his rundown home in Nieucheping village of Liuzhou city in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang after both his parents died from the deadly virus. He receives 70 yuan of subsistence allowance per month from the local civil bureau and periodical material supplies from kindhearted people. Other times, he has been collecting wood to support himself. Source (including photos): English.sina.com
I was so touched with grief that it prompted the following lines of haiku. May god bless the boy or death take him away too.
at tender six years
burdened to make his ends meet
toils he day and night
lonesome and gamesome
unawares of impending death
boy, ball and shadow
In an unkind world
Love and affection unknown
mere walking shadow
Silence for a friend
Loneliness and fear his guests
Living silhouette
Light darkening fast
Surviving sans a future
Cruel and unfair world
Rose nipped ere its bloom
Despair hopes and lost future
Cant death take him away?
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