“A Child Remembers”
The snow was cold
Within the child’s mind
Who remembers the chill through time.
He who clothed the window pane
Only a memory that I have known.
It seems to circle father time
As that child inside remembers.
Emotions ride so very high
Thoughts of you go running by.
This picture within my eye
Haunts with fever and a sigh.
If you could see this child’s mind
Tears would burn within your eyes
Because the child inside remembers.
Should you ask, why am I ...
So heavy into days gone by ...
The child’s unrest
Heavy in my chest
Weight that tends to bare me.
Accusations go fleeting by
While the child moves around inside.
Little is known, little comfort soul
He that doest thou scare you.
Emotions formed in tender years
To frighten a timid mind.
Impressions met by little thighs
Awakened to early in time.
And inside the child just crys.
Can’t anyone see whats been done
To little girls like me.
Or do you just close a widened eye
Pretending that nothing was ever there.
Never complaining ... what are you doing.
Just letting the pain sink deeper inside.
But the child whines ... Oh why ...
Can’t you see me ... this is I
The child you left behind.
Within your eyes I did see
An acknowledgment of he.
But far too late
You should have seen
And spoken for the child who cried.
written by ... Barbara Croce
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