INNOCENCE LOST
A tender tendril groping for support,
clinging and climbing
not yet leaving the earth
divine angels above,
showered blessings as she took birth.
in those large round eyes
shone like diamonds far beyond
any wealth or price.
Cooing, gurgling, sometimes crying
she made sure she got
all attention worth trying.
slowly, very slowly the world touched her.
Kisses, caresses, cuddles changed meaning,
parents, siblings, friends and folks
sugar-coated poisons, mostly feigning
ideas, orders, comments and jokes,
groping and pawing she could not decipher,
voices, eyes, hands no longer good in feel--
some would hurt, and others
that were downright heel.
made her feel guilty and full of blame.
She cocooned herself from the world around
yet looking for support
that was nowhere to be found.
Not mother, father, any could give
the support she needed now to live.
and turned to thorny callous stuff.
Those wondrously luminous, innocent eyes, started
looking down,
dark and brooding, in denial
she now spoke with a frown.
The art of lying slowly poisoned her tongue
as she started looking
older than a child that young.
and near ones also, each tearing asunder
the faith and love
she hungered to get and give,
with nobody caring
how she loved or lived.
through what she’d heard, felt and been--
life became a nightmare
no child should ever have seen.
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