Monday, May 08, 2006

About a Friend

About A Friend

She throws herself back into her past
Her bruises show that people don't change,
Her head is bruised from the stairs

Her daddy killed her baby

Her period, a month late
He kicked her stomach to the point
of an unexpected period: heavy and disturbing, bleeding,

Her daddy killed her baby

She fought back - she made him bleed
but her body is still bruised
Her emotions are still broken

Her daddy killed her baby

Why did she go back?
How could her foster parents let her?
She has no answers


Her daddy killed her baby

He used to rape her everyday
until she was 15
Yet she went back

Her daddy killed her baby
Her daddy killed her baby
Her daddy killed her baby

2 comments:

S. Burgess said...

Happy, happy, happy.

S. Burgess said...

Hey. I dare you to write a happy poem. Or at least one in which some enlightment happens. And don't tell me that's what's wrong with society or whatever; it's just an exercise.