Just A Word

Just A Word 

by Paul McCann  

It was just a word he never heard  ,

Five letters is all that it was .

He waited in vain but no one came

To say sorry to him because

Its too hard to say that word today ‘

And tomorrow it never comes

For the child abused and left confused

To survive alone in the slums .

He tried to forget all the regret

Of not hearing that little word

He lived and he died and cried inside

For the sorry he never heard .