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