"Just Once"

She once knew love, had seen its face,
Died on the inside...when it was replaced.
Now she knows contentment and peace.
A life that is shared, but old memories will not cease.
For just once she saw...what real love was about;
Has inner peace...yet still lives without.

Kathie {Valentine" York

A world of treason, torture, lies
at the edge of a cliff
unburied
wrapped in
years of a loving,
a wordless deceit

shapeless
on fire from
the first
brings with it
shame,
and knowing defeat.

How can this be?
A little girl only three?
Hated and abused,
But no one ever knew.