Child
Little left child,
Where did your father go?
Did he step on your little fingers
To reach the hands of someone more lovely
Less deserving
Of his plum dark love?
Little lost child,
Where did your mother go?
Was she swept up in a breeze too kind
Too harsh
To take a child as well?
little lonely child,
Where did your family go?
Did the loss that gripped them
Take out its anger on you,
Such a cruel fate
On such an undeserving target
little lovely child,
Where did your home go?
Did you run far, far away,
Never to return,
Never to look back
And realize your mistake too late?
Child,
What will you become?
Now that your baby teeth are gone
And your eyes no longer innocent
Is anything the same?
Is the lovely, lonely, lost child still left?