What lies behind these eyes
Is something you don't know
But I'll do my best to explain
The memories and sadness it shows
When I was a little girl
No older than four or five
Mommy and daddy would always fight
And send me somewhere else to hide
Daddy always took me to grandma's house
But what he didn't know
Was that grandma beat me consistently
But he wasn't visible to bruises that show
When one time at midnight
Grandma took it way too far
For she hit me with a baseball bat
And that night left me a permanent scar
As my mind went black
And my tiny body fell down the stairs
My head hit the cement floor
And she screamed with fright at my unconscious body lying there
She rushed me to the hospital
Where the doctors took care of me
And called my mom and dad
For their baby girl was in desperate need
Then the doctor questioned them
As to how could this have happened
My mother looked at my grandma
And her heart began to shatter
They said I was in coma
For about two or three weeks
But finally I did awake
Though it was hard for me to speak
I slowly recovered
And time passed on by
But something was wrong with daddy
For I could see it in his eyes
A few years passed along
And I was now Eight in a half
Daddy was putting up the Christmas tree
And he had a certain happiness that he lacked
He told me to wait a while
For he needed to take a rest
So he went to take a bubble bath
To stay awake I did my very best
Hours seem to go by
When I finally did awake
But what I saw in the tub
Was something that my fragile heart couldn't take
See daddy wasn't moving
As tears began to fill my eyes
I screamed out his name
Even though I knew he committed suicide
Then one day I was sitting in class
When my teacher wasn't acting right
And asked me to stay after school
I was never the same after that night
He said that he was truly sorry about my father
And the things weren't right that he was doing
But what he did to me was wrong
See statutory rape he was committing
As I confessed my story in court
Explaining to them what he did was wrong
The other six girls stood trial
And they weren't at all that strong
Finally it was over at last
And sentenced him to twenty-one years
But nothing longer than that
Made one more thing on my list to fear
Life after that was difficult
Because mommy was never around
And every time I needed her
She was nowhere to be found
So now I'm fifteen years of age
And trying to ace life's test
For surviving in this game
I'm doing my very best
But at least now you get a deeper look
Of the heartache that's inside
I did my best to explain the past
And what lies behind these eyes...
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