I look up in the sky

“I look up in the sky

And wonder where I would be

If I wasn’t here right now

Dead or raped you must

Not know my story.

Those band aids they put on

Our skin and tried to

Cover up the pain

It will never work with me

You still can see

My pain

My sorrow

The purple and green

Marks all over my back and legs

Wearing long jeans and long sweaters

To cover up all the marks

It’s not only there but it’s in my broken heart

Taken that dumb five dollar bills

From your own child

Using it for drugs to take away the pain

From having me

Yelling and streaming

Asking you to stop

Beating us

Tears roll

Down my cheek

On that depression of six years of my life

If I was still

There I might kill myself

And I’m happy that all my pain

Is all gone?

 

For now……”