Scar Tissue

Follow the marks up from the ground
and over the curves
of a newly tainted body-
bruised and disfigured from the rage
and the thrust of lust.
Hold your eyes shut
as this tormented soul
carries itself through humiliation
and pain. Turn your head away
from the sight of a suppressed survivor.
Now:
watch and share the hurt
bestowed upon this creature
as blankets of anguish shed
from effervescent eyes
and stream down covering
mangled hands and mixing with blood
and sorrow. Cover your ears, and
block out the sounds that exit
the mouth of a former life.
Feel pity now. Don’t look around;
only feel for this beast
that has lost continuity and hope.
Now clear your mind
and look directly into this little girls’ eyes.
There is no creature, no beast lurking here,
only a little girl
frightened and trembling
as a judge compels her
to reconstruct and relive her terror.