Can You See Her?

Compromise
A thing we toy with too much...
Can you see her?
A life of hardship and pain
Her fire has been put out
By heavy flooding rain.

Can you see her?
Helpless and crying
A reputation of selling herself
Inside her soul is dying.

Can you see her?
All happiness is drained
She can't escape her owner
She's a prostitute she's ashamed.

The way people look at her
When she's on the street
Sneering, jeering
Dropping dirty money at her feet.

Can you see her?
She's a prisoner of defeat
She's crying to get out
By the way she doesn't eat.

Can you see her?
She doesn't have the strength to win
She'll never find a way out
This is how her life will end.

Make-up cannot cover
Her hideous bruises and black eyes
Her face now looks like death
There's no fire, there's no life.

Can you see her?
She has nowhere else to run
Can you blame her?
She tries to find the gun.

Can you see her?
She holds the gun in her hands
Holding it tight
Like a key to the promised land.

She puts the gun to her temple
As she starts to sing
Of repentance and she pulls the trigger
Her suffering is at it's end.

She is free.
Can you see her?

*written in 2003*

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