Never Have To Know

Here she stands,

An image cased in glass.

We 'protect' her from a world of hate

That we don't think she knows of.

She's seen the violence among the streets,

The pain in her mother's tears.

She knows so well of the world beyond

Her four brick walls, maybe better.

Within the night she lives the life

Daddy's little girl shouldn't.

She fights, she lusts, she's human.

All through her sheltered sanity.

So home she goes,

In her walls alone.

Dinner's ready in ten,

"They'll never need to know."