She uses expensive makeup to cover up
all the bruises she has been given.
Broken and beaten she managed to fake a smile
it seemed she was always convincing people she was fine.
But really she wasn’t.
That night when she had to go to the hospital
everyone found out what he had done to her.
He hit her out of his drunken anger
and now she had to pay the piper.

3 cracked ribs and a swollen eye
was enough for them to question why?
It was all her mother's fault in her mind
leaving her alone with that man when she was only nine
to face his nightly wrath.
She was so innocent and young
and there was nothing she had done wrong.