I can still hear her cry
I can never forget,
I can still see her tears
I can never forgive.
A Brother should protect
A Brother should defend,
I was too young to understand
What I was forced to watch.
But I knew what was right
I understood what was wrong,
But he didn't listen
They never listen.
Even now that I am a Man
I can not understand,
What confused me as a boy
That which I witnessed.
How can someone sink so low
To take a child as a woman?
What in such youth
Can provoke such dark desire?
Children are to be protected
Nurtured and cared for.
They are our futures
An empty canvass of destiny.
When you abuse such innocence
When you defile such purity,
You paint our future with hate
You destroy our destiny.
We live in a world of shame
Our Angels are cruely taken,
Their hearts are forever scarred
And we create tormented Daemons.
Author notes
Some things can never be forgotten, no matter how hard we try to destroy ourselves to erase the memory.
A contest entry
- Once More I speak to unsilence the issue by x-Black-Butterfly-x.
6000 points, ended March 8, 2008, 42 entries
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Comments
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I can see so much pain in this poem...Well written, although I wish you would have never had to go through such an expirence and write such a poem... "an empty canvas of destiney" Such a powerful line in its intensity...Most people don't realize that they are...
Misery
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this is very intense and beautiful, in a dark, sad way. i commend you for revealing this pain, i know how hard it is. have strength, poet. well done.
Abby -
so beautifully written I thinkthat my brother could relate to some of the things said here. so powerful and yet sad
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