The Homeless Girl
Young and solitary homeless girl
With sky-colour eyes
Wearing a haggard
And consumed makeup
The blond hair that betrays
Your young age
Melted like golden filaments
On minute shoulders
Soon you were taken
From the jigs
With your friends
That now share with you
Only a hellish destiny
Deaf to the pedestrian who
Gives you a few coins
Remnants of a long night
In a sumptuous restaurant
Your childhood has been
Stolen from you
By a violent father and his
Evil companions
Now you have flashbacks
And nightmares
Of your past life
That chains your mind
While you try to soothe it by self-harm
In the long nights
Under the stars
No more love and friendship
But only the annoying attentions
Of the drunk man
Or the blasphemers
Or the unknown chap
In the stench of an abandoned house
You find your modern slavery
A meagre plate of soup
Oat but no treats
The cold of the night
Looking through the window a
Distant Moon
A nude and worn out mattress
As couch and agony
And some change
To continue singing
A distant litany
But from a few days
Your hope has strengthened
As lightning
After that in tears
You rushed into a nearby chapel
They have returned
You a solar white
And the desired love
Your faith, evening Vespers
And your alms in a
Wooden chest
Copyright © Carlo Lazzari | Year Posted 2018
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