What happens when childhood has been violated

Where does that lost innocence go

What does take purity’s place

Do you really have the heart to know

Rage, confusion, shame, and fear fill the void

Where goodness and trust once occupied

Love is transmuted into indifference

The gentle playful soul is tainted by a heartless blackness

When an encounter occurs

With this fallen little angel

The situation usually is explosive and traumatic

Emotions tend to run high and extremely chaotic

The cancer keeps eating away

Hour after hour, day after day

It is too much to handle or endure

The child is scarred and jaded

At such a tender young age

The marrow that once was life

Has been poisoned and now decays

There is not much to look forward to

Save the constant broken promises

Falling to the bottom of your wishing well