Sable Child

 

Though hidden by bulking meat

Acid sweat and sour breath

that creeps across your flesh

Sucking you in spitting you out

Robbing your virginity

But never your dignity

Still, your radiance glows.

 

You carry your beauty high and proud

Even in your camouflaged sorrow

Of bruised sable flesh

Your beauty beams out from you

Bursting through your sorrow

It’s there, always.

Even hidden behind lock and key

You will defeat them

They will not win.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

tarnished reputation, but not tarnished spirit...
she has been assaulted on some way and yet remains as strong in her resolve as ever.
j.

[Pauline]

Thank you J. I'd been reading about children in third world countries and the way that some of them were treated. It's apalling what goes on behind our backs, the fear that these children must go through and their parents that daren't speak out. Not enough is done to quell these vile assaults happening.

Pauline.