Black Poetry : She Cries Alone At Night

blakverb

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she just
cries at night
alone............
in the shadows
behind the backs of stars
making symbols above their
heads with her pain
muted sounds escaping in
the vacuum of
police sirens
and night owls stirring
looking for a place to get down
she used to
dance and hang out
and chill with her girls
and just enjoy
living...then...
see she didn't understand
why he dragged her behind her house
and see she did not know why he
invaded her temple
leaving her in a state
in which she obsessively scrubs
her body to rid herself of
memories that have left a stench
she can't even hold herself
and she shivers
see momma told her through her
drunken stupor that she shouldn't
have worn those "hoe clothes"
tight mini-skirt pronouncing
her every curve in a native tongue
that her momma said she couldn't speak
sister said "that's what your pretty ***
gets"....
daddy been gone his voice not even an echo
she is alone
wondering what ever happened to
sun rises and fresh air and
laughter and spring breezes and
love...
it all died that night...when her voice
left her to find help...it never returned
and now she sits
silently and cries
behind the backs of stars
making symbols above their heads
with her pain

(c)2001 blakverb
 

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