Helpless

I'd do anything to protect my kids ,
but recently I felt totally helpless.
My eldest was being bullied at school ,
and I was sending him their in sadness.
He didn't want to tell me at first ,
but I saw the bruises on his arm.
I asked him how he'd got them ,
at school surely he should come to no harm.
As a kid I was bullied at school ,
back then I only had the name calling.
But the names they would hurt so much ,
everytime I heard them I felt my confidence falling.
By the time I left school I had no confidence ,
even now those names return to haunt me.
When you hear them everyday for years ,
thats what you believe you'll always be.
Now in finding out my son is being bullied ,
as his mum I feel I have let him down.
I went straight up to the school ,
he didn't want me to said he would look a clown.
If the boy found out I had been to the school ,
my son said even worse things would get.
But I can't sit back and do nothing ,
those bruises on my son I just can't forget.
What I really wanted to do ,
is get a hold of the lad making my son sad.
I wanted to hit him but knew I couldn't ,
instead all I felt was helpless and bad.
If a kid does not fit in in anyway ,
other kids can be so unkind and cruel.
Now its not just name calling the bullies do ,
surely one place of safety should be school ?.