Pretty Blue Eyes

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 walking and laughing

With my friend 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 that far

Said he had to go check on his sister

Then he offered to give me a ride

Not sure what he put in my coffee<

Or why this new friend would have lied

In a minute 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

In an instant my life had just vanished

As I found out… the bargain was me

No more Christmas or Birthdays or family

No more tears were allowed to be cried

And that once little girl from the food court

Though she’s breathing has already died

No more hope that one 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

The shell of a woman now lies here

That girl disappeared with those guys

And there’s not much that I can remember

Except once …… I  had pretty blue eyes

(Author anonymous)

She   
(By daddy of a 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. [Read more…]

All The World Stood Still
(author wants to remain anonymous)

Out in the country, far from town
A farmhouse on a hill
The roosters crow
And fall leaves blow
But all the world stands still
A skelton key
It waits for me
And fear consumes my will
A child cries
And something dies
and yet the world stands 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 stands still
A raven’s eye
Can watch me die
As crying fades to shrill
The blood was healed
As fate was sealed
While all the world stood still

Invisible  (by Lori R. )
I am invisible…
And the memories I recall
Silently waiting
In a dark and empty hall

Has everyone forsaken me..
Was I really all that bad?
When they look into my eyes
Do they see the pain I had?

I am invisible…
And I do not make a peep
My blood runs thru the wounds so deep
And the secrets that I keep

They never really knew me
Or my stepping stones of pain
I was washed downstream and swept away
Like teardrops in the rain

I am invisible…
And the odds are always stacked
The tiny fragments of the mirror
for me have all been cracked

How can I put the fragile
pieces on the shelf?
The many scattered slivers
that are hidden from myself?

I am invisible…
Sustained through all these years
My sentence and my destiny
is the taste of silent tears…I am invisible

.September 15, 2006