Another Child Lost

I was just a child.
What could I have done?
I've only been here for a little while.
How was I supposed to run?

Why'd you have to beat me
Till I bled and bruised?
I never wanted you to scream.
I would never make you choose

Between me and your "fun and fancy free."
All I wanted was for you to be happy.
If it stopped you from hitting me,
Then would've let you leave me.

Please don't break my bones.
I'm already so sore.
I never meant to make my tears stain your clothes.
I never meant to ask you for more.

The lights are getting dimmer.
I don't want them to go out.
Don't let me slip away into the glimmer!
Please, please help me get out.

Is this a dream?
No one will hurt me again?
Could it be I'm in Heaven's gleam,
Where the angels will hold me till I'm safe within?

Daddy won't hit me in frustration?
Mommy will never touch me again?
Please, don't tell me this is just a hallucination!
Let this be how it really ends!

I'm safe at last
In the arms of someone who loves me.
He'll never leave me broken in a cast.
He'll never get angry and abuse me.

No one will hurt me here.
I hope my old family is safe.
They didn't know how to hold me near.
They didn't know how easily I'd break.

Something was wrong with them.
They were just sick.
I hope somebody helps them
To realize that Satan's played a nasty trick.

Though they hurt me terribly,
I want them to know
That I love them dearly,
But they have to go

And pay for their mistakes
So this won't happen again.
Don't let this be another child's fate.
Don't let this be their end.