Child Abuse Ballad Poems

Telling "White Lies"

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,

experienced grinding poverty, no
matter...

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If you see Africa
Tell her that I am in love with her
Tell her that I love her more than ladies
Love recharge cards and strawberry
Tell her...

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Representing God is to stand tall
It’s what separates priests from us all
So when someone standing for God and good
Commits offences upon innocent ones as they...

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Some words have such power 
To us who hear them in this hour
To know when children alone cried
And justice for them was denied

Evil once ruled...

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You came into our lives like a storm
We fear it's not the norm.
Our life has a secret past
We knew it would never last.
We wondered what...

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Souls Apart 
By Mark Miller © 05/01/2014
Mimes voices rehearse beacons host of estrangement,
Identities detachment gaze a frayed displacement-
Dance of death blind of twisted Macabre of...

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OR, MY FEZ

Candy Daddy sneaks into my room at night
"Don't tell mommy," Candy Daddy says.
He has to give me candy when I ask for some
Or...

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Murky water left to drink
floating particles of death
Erie presence leaves discontent
As something wicked floats in it.
The bone chilling chilly wind doth blow
off Lake Erie with...

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Ripped, tattered and torn
A new addiction born 
replacing the hope you stole from me 
why didn't you just let me be? 
Breaking me over a...

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I used to be so happy,
Charismatic and full of joy.
But when age 11 came and passed,
It left behind a troubled boy.
A skeleton in my closet,
That...

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