Kaleidoscope Eyes

Little girl crying softly as she sits on the street.

Her eyes are black, bruised, and her body is always beat.

She misses her mother, because she kept her dad in line.

But when she left, he went crazy, and thinks he's fine and so divine.

He thinks that he's so perfect he can beat a girl senseless,

go into a bar and drink until he falls down cents-less.

And outside in the snow, she's all alone and still crying.

Some day she'll just lay down on the ground and she'll be dying.

Because her wounds bleed so badly that she can't even stand it.

She wanted to run away before, and she had even planned it

when her dad found her plans and threw them quickly in the fire.

Now, in all the world around her she has only one desire.

See, since that day he took and tied a collar around her neck,

making sure that she could never disappear as if a speck.

And she just wants it to come off; she just wants to be so normal.

'Cause when all the kids walk by, they stare as if she's paranormal.

They treat life as if a game; they walk around on two good feet

when she can't even stand on one because the collar and 'cause she's beat

until she's blue and black and dying and crying all over her body.

And the kids -they stare as they pass as if she is something shoddy.

So it's a beautiful-eyed girl who can only see her own tears

as she sits beside a streetlight, wearing a collar every year.

She'd rather slit her throat than wear it; she'd rather jump off of a bridge.

But the one time that she said that, he shoved her whole head into a fridge.

And how in the hell is he not caught? How in the hell does he walk free

when there's a little girl dying on the corner of 1st and Maple Tree?

Nobody really knows her pain. Nobody can ever understand.

Even when they offer help, she doesn't want to take their hand.

'Cause her dad might come and break it. He might come and make her cry.

And she knows that someday, he'll be the reason that she will die.

Reviews

[Paavana Varma]

Wow,that's seriously touching.Nicely penned!

PS-I couldn't help but notice, how this poem reads like a rap song!

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alot of mine do :) thank you paavana

[Saddam]

Its something that may think about it.
Nice write dear friend as always.

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thank you saddam :)

[KittyKatgirl]

Omg this brought tears to my eyes. I hate it when children get abused by their parent/parents. I rarely enjoy reading poems but every poem I read of yours Dante I really love reading.

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thank you crystal :) and its a story ive seen happen too much