Sunday, November 26, 2006

Lonely Child

This is one of my own poems...

Somewhere in the dark
A little girl is hiding,
Waiting in the shadows
Quiet as a mouse.

No one there to comfort her,
Alone as can be.
Just a frightened little girl
In an old empty house.

Will someone come and find her
And show her the way?
Help her wake from this nightmare
Into a bright and new day…

But alas she sits and waits –
Poor defenseless child.
Dying on the inside,
Abandoned to the night.

It’s a dreadful scene
And all too familiar,
A child should never have to see
And hear her parents fight.
~
[Written 2003]

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