Kaleidoscope Eyes

A Poem by Not here

Little girl crying softly as she sits on the street.

Her eyes are black, bruised, and her body is always beat.

She misses her mother, because she kept her dad in line.

But when she left, he went crazy, and thinks he's fine and so divine.

He thinks that he's so perfect he can beat a girl senseless,

go into a bar and drink until he falls down cents-less.

And outside in the snow, she's all alone and still crying.

Some day she'll just lay down on the ground and she'll be dying.

Because her wounds bleed so badly that she can't even stand it.

She wanted to run away before, and she had even planned it

when her dad found her plans and threw them quickly in the fire.

Now, in all the world around her she has only one desire.

See, since that day he took and tied a collar around her neck,

making sure that she could never disappear as if a speck.

And she just wants it to come off; she just wants to be so normal.

'Cause when all the kids walk by, they stare as if she's paranormal.

They treat life as if a game; they walk around on two good feet

when she can't even stand on one because the collar and 'cause she's beat

until she's blue and black and dying and crying all over her body.

And the kids -they stare as they pass as if she is something shoddy.

So it's a beautiful-eyed girl who can only see her own tears

as she sits beside a streetlight, wearing a collar every year.

She'd rather slit her throat than wear it; she'd rather jump off of a bridge.

But the one time that she said that, he shoved her whole head into a fridge.

And how in the hell is he not caught? How in the hell does he walk free

when there's a little girl dying on the corner of 1st and Maple Tree?

Nobody really knows her pain. Nobody can ever understand.

Even when they offer help, she doesn't want to take their hand.

'Cause her dad might come and break it. He might come and make her cry.

And she knows that someday, he'll be the reason that she will die.

© 2015 Not here

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Riley Justine

This is an extremely meaningful and emotional poem. Really well written and intense. The imagery adn rhyming is impeccable, well done.

Posted 8 Years Ago

Brittany Bostic

Wow this poem was very powerful. The theme was so intense and as it brought me through the story I saw disturbing images of what this little girl was going through and how that might make her meet her end. Incredible.

Posted 9 Years Ago

9 Years Ago

thank you for reading rudi:)

JayceeC

D. The is good an you pull at out heart strings and out social conscience at the same time. You have one little typo in the last line of the first stanza. but other than that, it's great. Loved your use of "cents-less" instead of senseless. Yes he drinks himself stupidly out of money, until all of it is gone, and I'm sure that will be her fault to, once he wakes up from his drunken stupor.
it's sad to know that some people really do live this way, and there never seems to be anyone around who cares enough to truly get involved. No one to offer sanctuary, and put him away, and so yes, she lives with he knowledge that she will most likely die at his hand.