Rebecca Edwards

This young girl kept from sight
crying into the middle of the night
she fears that others will sense the shame.
but was this girl really to blame?
This little girl who was full of belief
could not from him seem to find relief.
She feels so dirty with her clothes that tore
when she is being flung on the bedroom floor.
This broken child lost her innocence at a very young age
through a trusted man's deliberate drunken rage.
Her little broken heart was full of pain.
Through the rest of her life it would stain.
People would see the bruises that lay upon her face.
She wanted and longed for her special place.
While he was looking around
this little girl couldn't make a sound.
She couldn't have her own bed.
He would be there touching her instead,
taking her clothes off he would touch.
This haunted her little heart so much.
she just wanted him to understand,
but instead she got the back of his hand.
Night after night she endured this pain,
never to be happy ever again.
This little angel from above
could not find the slightest inch of love.
This mountain of unnoticed fear
went on year after year.
While she was crying silent tears
he was tucking into some beers.
Why would no one come to her aid?
Day after day her happiness would fade.
This went on for so, so long,
and no one thought that this was wrong.
This little girl that no one could save,
she longed for her peaceful grave.