Lily's Story Poem by Shazza Rixx

This story is for the children whose stories have never been told,
The ones that keep it to themselves until they are old.

Prologue:

Lily died a horrible death
She was malested and hurt
By a horrible man
By the name of Albert...

Now here's the story:

I lay here waiting
On the floor
Just sitting here watching
That big, brown door

Should I run
Or should I stay?
All of the sadness
Just wont go away

I'm so frightened
I hear footsteps
Maybe it's the police
I think in my head

In comes a woman
Dressed really pretty
The look on her face
Is full of pity

She puts food on the table
Then she looks around
Finally she sees me
Laying on the ground

Wrapped in a blanket
Alone and cold
Wishing I had a friend
With a hand to hold

My clothes are old
Baggy and torn
My shoes are bad
All ragged and worn

She gasps and cries
The man runs in now
He throws her out
And calls her a cow

I cower in fear
This man scares me
He hits, he kicks,
Plus hurts me emotionally

He slams the door
And marches over
'How dare you hide
And lay here to cower'

BANG! Goes his fist
Onto my tiny skull
Out of his hands I slip
Onto the floor I fall

He picks me up
I yell at him to stop
He hits my arm
Something goes pop

My arm is hanging limply
With the bone sticking out
It's hurting badly and bleeding
But I try hard not to shout

The world is spinning
I start to feel weak
I try to tell him to leave me alone
But I cant seem to speak

Someone is at the door
Trying to break it down
The man looks at it
And he begins to frown

He suddenly looks worried
The cops burst through the door
That's when I went sliding...
Sliding onto the hard cement floor

I was rushed to hospital
Where my life was saved
The doctors tell me
I was very brave

I went back to my parents
They were filled wih such joy
I met my sister Alana
And little brother Troy

It's been twenty years
I still can't forget
I was only six
And he's not in jail yet

That horrid man
Of forty-four
Who bashed and left me
On the hard cement floor

It makes me sad
And angry too
To know what this
Horrid man can do

He's out there now
As free as can be
He bashed, insulted,
And nearly murdered me

I see him now
Across the road
My gun is ready
And it explodes

One, two, three,
And a forth one in case
He can't hurt anyone now
He has left this place

People are screaming
I break down and cry
I would have been fine
If it weren't for that guy

I was frightened
Scared out of my brains
I put the gun to my head
Into darkness I fade

I lay here bleeding
On the hard cement floor
He can't hurt me now
I will rest forever more...