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Child Mirage
by Erica Ivory → (All Poetry by Erica Ivory)
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Take her..
She won't fight..
No need for rope ..
To bind her tight..
Throw her down..
on concrete floors..
Perhaps she will die..
She cares no more..
Punch her..
Hit her..
Blacken her eyes..
There is nothing you can do..
She is only a mirage..
You think she is real..
Maybe to you...
At one time she was a child..
Before your abuse..
Go ahead..
Try your best..
Fact is..
There is nothing left..
Your little play toy went away..
She is now far from you..
Her mind in another place..
Yes..
She bleeds..
On bloody knees
she crawls..
But notice tears..
Never fall.
She stopped crying
long ago..
Empty child..
Empty soul ..
You possess her body..
Not her mind..
She doesn't exist..
This child mirage..
Now she sees
the world created
within her own mind....
Where she lives..
She doesn't feel..
Doesn't care..
When you are done..
Leave her there..
Enslaved..
Beaten
Bloody body..
No longer whole.
What she once was..
was taken away.
I doubt there is
anyone left to save.
Let her stay in her private world..
No longer a mirage..
Perhaps...
once again a little girl..


 



 
 



 



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 Reviews of "Child Mirage"
Reviewed on March 19, 2004
touching and very good Erica, a little, well a lot sad. I think we all live there one time or another. love and peace G

Reviewed by Marco Landi (Reader)
Reviewed on March 19, 2004
Powerful and painful vision.... Brava

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Unspeakable senerio but we must speak about it. Far too many children are faced with, and are living in, this dreadful prison of the soul. Great stuff. Much needed, eyes-opening.

Reviewed on March 18, 2004
This was so painful to read, So deeply touching, I pray that little girl can find happiness one day, outstanding expression of a sad topic,

Reindeer

Reviewed by Debashish Haar (Reader)
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
You have made this painful topic look so simple...BRAVA...

>>>>You possess her body..
Not her mind..
< < < < < <especially touched me...

Debashish

Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Hi Erica:

What a painful write this is. I know there will not be anyone to reclaim the little girl who was once lost; but the little girl will stand up again by herself...nothing can beat her down. Her own force is much much larger than all the evil forces together.

In time she will not be little girl anymore and will soon learn of her own worthiness.

~ Sandie Angel a.k.a. May Lu ~



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