**WARNING**
Themes or molestation, rape, sexual harassment, and victim-blaming. This poem does not romanticize these subjects. Please exercise caution when reading if these subjects are sensitive to you.
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Shh baby girl, it'll be okay
On the cold wooden floor she lies,
Her small body trembling with fear,
Three nights before Christmas.
Her eyes clenched in terror,
As a rough hand moves down her body.
Her silent sobs cannot be heard.
With her mother in the next room,
A 4 year old girl's innocence is taken,
Just in time for Christmas.
Shh baby girl, it'll be okay
A 6 year old girl alone with a friend,
Locked in an old dark shed.
Unfamiliar touches cross her body again.
A friend whose touch in no longer kind,
One little girl who is trapped inside her mind.
Another set of sobs that are forever silenced.
A little girl who was discarded,
A broken toy.
This little girl was nothing but used.
Shh baby girl, it'll be okay
A young teen speaks the truth,
She sits in a chair
Before judgmental eyes.
She speaks of a man
From many years ago,
And of the friend she used to know.
The eyes just narrow tightly and scold,
It's the little girl's fault,
She should have yelled out.
These eyes don't care that the man was armed.
These eyes don't care that the girl was strong.
These eyes defend their son,
The one who is in jail for molesting his sister,
But as his cousin, I don't count.
These eyes defend their daughter,
The one who was violated herself.
They said I was overreacting,
It is I who was the bad judge of character.
To this day, there is a little girl,
Trapped and trembling,
Scarred and scared.
Trapped forever inside her adult body.
Shh baby girl, it'll be okay.
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