50 Word fiction - Please Can He Smile Too?

                                                                                                                    Please Can He Smile Too?

Dad built home from nothing.
Mum built family by heart.
Middle-son strained
boy muscles to help.
TONS of hard work
Earned money
Media says his skin tone is greedy
People assume he stole their worth
​They dismiss, accuse, and take
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                                                                                                Yet he wants to make people smile.
 
 
By Lynn Jodeit Ouellette, 2025