I like the message in this piece. It's important, poignant, and one that needs attention. But it's a bit heavy handed. A poem, especially a message poem, should be subtle in its approach so that the reader might be steered gently toward an epiphany.
Unless of course this is a vent poem just to make you feel better (because you've gotten it off your chest), but if it's to raise awareness, the reader shouldn't be beat over the head with it.
Here are some suggestions for making this piece less prosaic, and more poetic. Turn it into a narrative poem, or one that tells a story with images. Think of the poem as a painting you're doing, and your words the paint and brushes you are using to create the images, that express your ideas.
Paint a word picture of your central idea, and let the reader come to a conclusion suggested by your images.
For example, you could begin the piece by depicting a child crying not because it is spoiled, but because it is neglected:
A tear slips like a pearl down a ruddy cheek,
a child consoles her threadbare baby, one eye
hangs loosely to a thread like love,
each held tightly chest to tiny chest,
her heart beating like a trapped sparrow
seeking escape, she says, "It's alright,
I love you, baby, don't cry,"
while in the next room,
her mother shouts, "Keep it down,
I'm trying to work."
In the darkness, they both cry.
With this stanza, you've painted a poignant picture of neglected child, seeking solace from an inanimate object, which, by the way, symbolizes her own situation.
Try substituting descriptive images for prose, expressing the same ideas, in the rest of your graphs. I think you'll be surprised at the results.
I hope you allow me to make these suggestions in the spirit of one writer seeing talent in another, in an attempt to nurture, Keep writing,
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