The Hooker
There she was
a dancer up on stage
swaying seductively to the crowd's rage
but in her mind and heart
she was really quite shy
and years passed further apart
then the suggestive men's eyes.
To the dance of body rhythms run
her childlike youth succumbed
to the lustful ardor void
and inner beauty spurned
stole her innocence destroyed
leaving impassioned bodies burned
in lieu of the countenance of love.
As morning light emerged
other women saw her as scourge
but somewhere hidden deep
within her heart of hearts
lay chaste virtue asleep
awaiting release and freedom's start
from slavery that humanity imparts.
Alone among others enslaved
she returns to the master man's cave
tender and submissive she cries
a lost and lonely child
with no mother to dry her eyes
forgotten or dismissed and defiled,
who is the hooker in this exile?
Copyright © DM Babbit | Year Posted 2018
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