LOOKING BACK

LOOKING BACK ON A TIME AND PLACE
SEEING A CHILD'S INNOCENT FACE,
KNOWING THAT THINGS AREN'T AS THEY APPEAR
FOR INSIDE SHE CRIES SILENT TEARS.

DEEP INSIDE SHE IS FILLED WITH PAIN
SHE FEELS DIRTY AND FULL OF SHAME,
INNOCENCE LOST AT A VERY YOUNG AGE
LOCKED THIS CHILD IN A PAINFUL CAGE.

THERE IS NO FREEDOM OR ESCAPE
FROM THE FACT THIS CHILD WAS RAPED,
WHILE THE GUILTY ONE IS ROAMING FREE
THIS CHILD IS SENTENCED TO ETERNITY.

ETERNITY LOCKED AWAY WITH ALL THIS SHAME
SHE CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL THAT SHE WAS TO BLAME,
EVEN THOUGH COMMON SENSE SAYS IT WAS NOT HER FAULT
SHE CAN'T SEEM TO HELP FROM HAVING THESE THOUGHTS.

WHAT IFS KEEP RUNNING THROUGH HER MIND
SHE KEEPS ON GOING BACK TO THOSE MOMENTS IN TIME,
IF THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT SHE COULD HAVE DONE
WHY DIDN'T SHE SCREAM OR AT LEAST TRY TO RUN.

FEAR KEPT HER FROZEN TO THE SPOT
WHILE THIS BIG LAD DID WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE NOT,
SHAME AND FEAR MADE HER KEEP THE SILENCE
KEPT HER FROM TELLING ANYONE ABOUT THE VIOLENCE.

THE THING THAT IS SHOCKING BEYOND BELIEF
IS THAT THIS CHILD COULD NOT GET ANY RELIEF,
THE SAME THING HAPPENED AGAIN AND AGAIN
THE FIRST ONE WAS JUST HOW IT BEGAN.

MORE THAN ONE MAN DID HIS WORST
NONE OF THEM CARING ABOUT THE CHILD THEY HURT,
AFTER THE FIRST TIME IT WAS EASY TO TELL
WAS IT HER PAIN AND SHAME, THEY PUT HER THROUGH HELL.

OFTEN ALL THESE THINGS THAT HAPPEN
LIE BURIED DEEP INSIDE,
WHERE NOBODY HEARS THE SILENT CRYING
OR SEES THE PAIN THEY HIDE.

FOR THE CHILD WHO SMILES BUT CANNOT FEEL
BECAUSE OF SCARS TO DEEP TO HEAL,
FOR THE CHILD WHO YEARNS FOR LOVE
I HOPE AND PRAY TO GOD ABOVE,
TO HEAR YOUR CRIES AND HEAL YOUR PAIN
AND GIVE YOU BACK YOUR LIFE AGAIN !!!!!!!!