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Listen With Your Eyes and Ears

d e s p e r o d o w a s H E R name and the streets became her domain she walked the nights for money hoping to stay alive to see tomorrow empty soul lost cold unwanted alone f o r c e d t o f a c e the truth everytime she turned a trick for a hot meal and roof over her head exposed to all sorts of beasts and demons innocence betrayed by human hands l o n g i n g t o b e free she swallowd her reality and was captured by the monsters in the streets using and abusing every bit of pride she had to indigest constantly to stay alive s h e i s y o u r mother your sister your aunt your daughter she cries out loud for our help shes dying out there we drive by her and stare and turn away shes alone H E L P H E L P

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