Youth Compromised
(CW: abuse)
Can your guilt ever be explained away?
Can you even remember?
All those choices that were never yours
Started May-December.
Father left the house for good,
Then mother ran away.
She took me with her to hide from him.
And a broken house I stayed.
The neighbor was a sweet old ma’am
She let me watch tv.
Even though she smoke and drank
She was always was sweet to me.
She liked to keep that company
Who joined her in her fun.
Several people in the house
But I only ran from one.
He made me sit up on his lap,
I think, I can’t be sure.
The past is like a heavy fog,
I can’t remember anymore.
I blamed myself for what had happened
For what I have become.
Who knew that such a vile act
Would change someone so young?
My childhood was taken away
By a man who never knew
What consequences he gave to me
Of non that I outgrew.
So keep your children close to you
And love them all you can
Just keep an open eye about
For that friendly man.