A Child’s Pain

Posted by on Jun 4, 2011 in Poetry | 0 comments

I hear you

You hate me
Your voice haunts me
Taunts me
Incessant

I cannot escape
Drowning in sounds of insults
Permeate
To depths unknown

My body, my limbs, my cells
My soul
Shrivels
Shrinking in despair

Hearing the only language ever known
Despised, Disgraced
Scared to the core

Spewing anger to disguise the pain
Staying distant
Safe

Knees drawn tight
Rocking
In pain
Terrified of monsters
Known and unknown

No escaping
Little legs cannot run fast enough
Nowhere to run
No one to run to
No hope for the young and innocent

Precious little one
I love you
But you do not believe me

 

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