Memory Thunders

She's the girl with no friends,
The one you made fun of for having split ends
When she used her haircut money
To buy something for her sonny
Because she loves him with all her heart,
Even if having him wasn't her favorite part.

He wasn't even part of her plan,
Just the result of some man
Who thought it would be okay
To take advantage of the poor girl in May.
The man told her not to yell or run,
That it was going to be fun.
But as much as she kicked and screamed,
She still ended up with crushed dreams.

He broke her mind,
Tore it in half. Now she's even scared of the kind;
The caring people she could trust the most
Have now just become ghosts
In her past and she wonders
Through all of the memory thunders
When will she be alright again?
She still cries every now and then.

She just wants to be a normal kid
But he did what he did.
So instead she's the one with the stroller who gets
Disapproving looks from unknowing mother without regrets
Who made a big decision on their own
When hers was more like a combat zone.

She can't help who she is or what happened
Even if it wasn't anything she could've imagined.
Her life in now a wreck
And nothing is in check
But she smiles anyways
Because the sun still sends down rays
And she knows she will survive 
Now that the man is no longer alive.

Copyright © Ashleigh Hood | Year Posted 2017

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