Poems

Pretty Blue Eyes
(written by Starbright)

Don’t know how this all could have happened
Just meeting with friends at the mall
Drinking smoothies and shopping for purses
I just can’t make sense of it all

I remember this guy at the food court
He said I had pretty blue eyes
In a flash we were walking and laughing
with my friends and these two other guys

A week had gone by and he texted
To get coffee and see his new car
We spent hours while drinking our lattes
Said his house was not really too far
Said he had to go check on his sister
And he offered to give me a ride
Not sure what he put in my coffee
Or why my new friend would have lied

In an instant my world was just spinning
There was not a clear thought in my head
I was bruised and my clothes were all tattered
my hands tied to the post of a bed

I heard men who were talking about prices
Tried to figure out what that could be
I am sure that my heart had stopped beating
As I found out the bargain was “me”

No more hope that some day they would find me
For the months now have turned into years
He reminds me as he beats me daily
There is nobody out there who cares

No more Christmas or family or birthdays
No more tears were allowed to be cried
And that once little girl from the food court
Though she’s breathing… has already died

The shell of a woman now lays here
That girl disappeared with those guys
And there’s not much that I can remember
Except once…. I had pretty blue eyes

All the World Stood Still
(written by Starbright)

Out in the country
far from town
A farmhouse on a hill
The roosters crow
And fall leaves blow
But all the world stood still
A skeleton key
It waits for me
And fear consumes my will
A child cries
And something dies
and yet the world stood still
It’s dark ..it’s cold
The bricks are old
I’m left to feel the chill
And souls are born
As I am torn
While all the world stood still
A raven’s eye
Can watch me die
As crying fades to shrill
The blood was healed
My fate was sealed
While all the world stood still

Hard To Breathe
(written by Starbright Foundation)

Exposed for all the world to see
I am naked on the floor
Ashamed and tainted in and out
and soiled to the core
To state the facts it matters not
for someone to believe
I’ve walked thru death
all on my own
and now its hard breathe

Tortured once by evil ones
That reap their joy from pain
chosen over others for
to one day walk insane

Dying once, no maybe twice
my flesh and soul were rotten
It could have been one hundred times
and I’ de still be forgotten

I see them in my dreams at night
and where I once was taken
I cannot understand it all
or why I was forsaken

Are my eyes that empty
and my heart so black
that this was placed before me
and will I never have the chance
for someone to adore me

For now I live eternal pain
and battle scars I’ll hide
and keep my secrets I once knew
forever locked inside

I’ll put a smile upon my face
but when I’m alone I’ll grieve
and remember what was taken once
and why it’s hard to breathe

SHE
(written by father of victim)

She was born with a little bit of hair, not a head full at all
But she had the face of a princess just like a little baby doll.
Her eyes were shut as in my arms I looked down
And when she opened them up, I saw they were mahogany brown.
She would toss and turn, flip and roll till she could crawl, then walk
Her voice was a high pitched squeak, until she could talk.
“Patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man”
“I’m going to get you girl! Run as fast as you can!”
She went to school to learn where she got good grades
She wore her hair curly with pigtails, ponytails, and braids.
She made a lot of friends but it slowly dwindled to a pact
Because some said, “You’re too this.. and you’re too that..
”No more curly hair, she just wore her hair straight
Her self esteem crushed, until she lost weight.
“This little piggy went to the market and this little piggy stayed home
”But when I came home one day, she was gone
As the sun came up and the streetlights flickered dim
It reminded me how long I had not seen her and how long it had been.
“Oh where oh where has my little girl gone, oh where oh where can she be?
”Sleeping in a bathroom, high as a kite, or somewhere walking on a street?
She used to be five foot three with pink and white painted toes
But she was found five foot six wearing a mini dress with black stilettos.“
Now I lay me down to sleep”Hugged up with some &$*% creep!?
She displayed the shell of a woman but she was just a girl
No pigtails, hair straight, no braids, no curls.
Her mahogany eyes covered in dark paint, no emotion,.. not a stir
My eyes welled up, my heart sank hard, as I looked at her
Screaming for help but her lips didn’t move
I thought this could never happen to us… I played the fool.
“Twinkle, twinkle little star”, in such a dark world
She is my baby… she, still is my baby girl.