Chicano Eddie Poet Free verse

She Betrays Herself

“SHE BETRAYS HERSELF”


yesterday, she was awake.
yesterday, she could see.
yesterday, she could talk,
yesterday, she could walk,
yesterday, she could run,
yesterday, Child Protective 
Services called to talk to 
her and she cried.
yesterday, Child Protective 
Services came to the house
and she was scared.
yesterday, she had no one but 
me.
yesterday, she sat next to me
while I watched television,
ate with me and we even 
shared a cigarette.
yesterday, Child Protective 
Services called themselves 
off and now she’s calm.

today, she left to meet up 
with her kid’s dad… one of 
them anyway. 
she’s taken a feeling for him 
again and I guess he 
reciprocated.
today, she came back, she’s 
blind, she’s got no voice,
she walks away, she runs 
away. 
today, Child Protective 
Services is a joke to her.
her tears are gone and she’s 
forgotten fear.

today, she’s gotten her dose 
of attention, her deadliest 
addiction.
today, she needs no friend 
for television, food or 
cigarettes.
Child Protective Services
is a distant memory and now,
she’s got a new friend to play 
with.
today, the chip on her 
shoulder rids her of being 
any type of human at all.


By: Chicano Eddie
7-28-2016

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