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Requiem for a Childhood Yuletide

December 2, 2010
By Paul_James PLATINUM, Plainsboro, New Jersey
Paul_James PLATINUM, Plainsboro, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
"The only true love I ever knew
Was behind those downcast eyes
The only comfort I ever felt
Was during those long hours of loneliness
When I felt for you
I do believe
Only innocence can save the world..." -Ocean Soul


A humble neighborhood on one Christmas night
A tragedy has brought a sad yuletide
A child etches her name on a grave
Hers was a life we didn't know we could save

Two little girls blessed with angels' names
Living for the hope of a saving grace
They don't know what it's like to be loved
Unconditionally from the heavens above

Why are the angels always the first ones to bleed?
Tragedy seems to always claim the good at heart
Why are the tears always cried by all the children who die
Running away to where they can never be harmed?

Beaten and scolded for no reason nor rhyme
Their lives are hourglasses running out of time
Their daddy doesn't care for the things said or done
Leaving the bruises of innocence undone

Their mother wishes she could hold him back
From beating the three of them to blue and black
She wonders where went the man she wed
Replaced by a monster who would leave them for dead

The dreams of silver and gold laid to rest
A broken home the neighbors hope for the best
The police came to take the bad man away
Their mother cried as they did too little too late

Why are the angels always the first ones to bleed?
Tragedy seems to always claim the good at heart
Why are the tears always cried by all the children who die
Running away to where they can never be harmed?

A little girl carrying her angel's name
Her sister's memory now her saving grace
Knowing her passing took away the pain
Knowing her daddy can't hurt her again...

The author's comments:
I had seen something at work that inspired this; a young mother of two with her husband had entered my store. The two children, both girls around the age of 6, and the wife were both being yelled at and screamed at by the husband from the minute they walked into the store. It shocked me, my coworker, and several other customers because if he was this unpleasant in public, who's to say how horrible he treats them at home? I cried writing this because I know what those girls must be going through having an abusive father. This is for anyone who knows what living in such a household is like...

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