Human Sex Trafficking: An Important Issue for Social Workers

by DeAnn Newhouse

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

Does anyone see me, anyone at all?

I cannot endure this ongoing gall

I am a fourteen-year-old runaway walking the street

Working for a john and selling sex to everyone I meet

Everyone just seems to pass me by

Doesn’t anyone see me when I cry?

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

I am really truly about to fall

Where are all the social workers when I call?

Don’t they see my pain?

Don’t they see my tears flowing like rain?

Help me, help me, I do plead

The drugs, the alcohol, is not what I need

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

Social workers do not forget about me and my plight

Approach me and reach out to me in the night

Do not pretend I do not exist

I could be your sister, or your niece at best

Social workers wake up this very day

And get me out of this life, I pray.

DeAnn Newhouse is a student at Shippensburg University majoring in social work.