Ode to Innocence

I don't remember his face

I tried my hardest to block it out

In the black in the back of that delivery truck

I fought and I fought but I was but a mere girl

I was 12 years old

See No Child Left Behind Had come along

And everyone thought it was the best thing ever

But they didn't teach a course on how not to get *****

I didn't know

So I didn't share

I held it in and i coped the only way i knew how

Every single night I slid that blade across my skin

And the red would come

Unfailing

I couldn't count on my savior in the back of that truck

But the red

The red was unwavering

My poor poor Innocence

Lost and alone

I had no choice but to replace you with Pain

The pain that clouded my mind

And prevented me from reliving that moment when

My dear dear Innocence

Lost and afraid

I had no choice but to replace you with Liquid Courage

Nothing mattered when he was around

My sweet sweet Innocence

Gone eternally

I had no choice but to replace you with the same amount of destruction that made me loose you

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