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The page describes children on steps losing fun and distance and truth losing song, then says it was like this all along.

The historical racial title is part of the source; the brief body does not establish the speaker's identity, the children's identity, or a particular event.

Under a handwritten heading using a historical racial term, a seven-row typed lament: 'Children on steps / Have lost the fun / Distance and truth / Have lost their song / Terrible chance / It was like this / All along'.

The repeated 'Have lost' reads like an inventory, and the close withdraws any sense of recent loss: the deprivation was always the condition. The heading is preserved as source wording; the page does not identify the children, the speaker, or a particular event.