Broken
battered
left on the side of the road
left to die
without anyone to hold.
Grim reality
scattered dreams
heroin needle
still stuck in the vein.
Star struck
beautiful girl
ventures to the land of sin
deceived
degraded
by the one who made her whole.
Within her soul
a blackness grew
as night after night
aspirations drowned
vile glass
after vile glass
men worked to take her down.
Her life
her desires
she acquiesces
when they touch her
vacant eyes staring
above heaving shoulders.
Visions of escape
ideas
flew from her mind
only the call of the needle
could sate growing hunger
eating her from the inside.
Broken
battered
left to die
slowly tears gather in her eyes.
Visions of parents
a home left behind
fade to black
as the grim reaper
reaps her soul.
January 28/19
The Wonderful and Wacky World of One Single Mom 