There sits a girl
There sits a
girl no older
than seventeen.
There are marks
on her arm
where it looks
she got abuse
when she was little.
There sits a
girl no older
than seventeen and
she is crying.
She wears nothing
but black because
she is afraid
of being hurt again.
There sits a
girl of the
age of seventeen
and she was
abuse all of
her life.
-Gene Conner
March 1, 2006