Parents Withhold Water - Boy Dies

This title in my local paper
Is not news to me
So many people are ignorant
And cruel

The child, a bed-wetter,
Was being taught a lesson
And now we are all taught
We often are a vicious specie
And radically unsympathetic

He was enduring a one month
Court-ordered custody visit
When he called his grandmother
To say he was afraid

3/4 of the earth is covered with water
But there was not a drop for this suffering child
Now let us cry
And water his grave
With our too late tears

Grant unto these parents, O Lord,
Eternal thirst