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Behind the Darkness

To Whom It May Concern

Every day I walk these streats where people find refuge at night
I walk these streats where at night was the birth place of featus not planed
Concent not given
A broken heart not mended
A Soul forever tarnished
 
In that corner was where she laid helplessly as men ramped trains through her
Her screams had turn to silent as if we were wairing ear plugs
We had become soo accustomed to these screems that our bodies switch automaticaly to mute to the screams that our ears can’t bare to listen.
 
She learns to move on
Picking up the all the pices that laid out on that streat
Hides her scars under her garment to avoid questions
Everytime she tells her story is like repeating a same song with different covers, different notes, but the same lyrics, that people don’t want to hear because their sister was singing it last night
 
I walk these streats where tourist come to view us
as though we are animals in a zoo
We have to put on our downloaded smiles so the news maybe able to filter us well
Watch us as we walk in our developing streats of our great nation with our garments of shame
But come the night when the full moon takes place and these humans turn to wolves.
 
Drips of blood from their flash, their flash striped of their bones, their bones crushed like ice with a blander, their stomachs cut opened for all to see, their limbs amputated  
Their hearts broken
Their souls manipulated
Their humanity devalued
Their salvation a rigid image
 
Behind the darkness lies
A broken girl
An abandoned bundle
A filted picture of a scarred face
Just anther shade of darkness

(2015)

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