I found this poem one night a long time ago and ran across it the other day…It makes me very sad, but people sometimes don’t realize it happens so often…
Standing in the darkness,
Fear twined in with tears of shame,
She doesn’t know what it is she did,
But she knows it had to be bad,
To deserve to be punished this way,
She sinks against the wall,
Tears finally starting to fall,
From beneath her swollen eyes,
She hears the front door open,
And then slammed shut in rage,
As her father yells out to her,
She cowers deeper in the closet,
As he barges in and grabs her hair,
Dragging her out as she pleads to him,
“Please let me go daddy,
I don’t know what it is I did,
But I promise to be good,
Just daddy please don’t hit me anymore!”
He disregards her pleas,
As he slaps her hard across the face,
She reels back,
Falling to the ground,
Scrambling to get away,
As he takes his belt,
And begins to beat her small already broken body,
Until she is inaches from her death,
And in her mind she prays to God,
To give her wings to get away,
As she takes in her last breath,
And the pain is finally ceased.
~Unknown~
