this has been in my thoughts for a while... Enjoy!

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I found myself wandering again
Into places I never knew had pain

A nursery room with flowers on the walls
Turns into a place where Daddy beats up Momma
And daddy fucks the maid
And the little baby sleeps silently at night
With no nightmares or knowledge
Of what happens in the day

A restaurant bathroom
Where a girl uses her fingers
To make herself throw up because she doesn’t think
She’s beautiful yet
She throws up the salad and her hopes slip away too
And yet in this same bathroom,
Other women who are perfectly comfortable with their shape
Do their make up and take their little girls to use the potty.

An alley
Where they had their first kiss
Is where he beats her
And he rapes her
Right behind her house
He takes her hair and smashes her against the wall
She falls and cries
And in the alley,
Is where he told her he loved her

My mind completely wandering to places in which pain happens everyday
And fear leads the minds of innocents.
We are so vulnerable
To what we love the most in the world
And nothing is really safe anymore.

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