The world is evil, eviler are men

Deep within the forest, the cub wanders,

Searching for a sanctuary, searching for his mother.

He shivers in the cold, trembles in the dark,

Stumbles through paths of thorn and dust.

He longs for Mommy, he cannot fathom why

She doesn’t come and hold him tight.

He’s terrified of the dark, his Mommy knows that.

Then why, oh why, is she not by his side?

He doesn’t like the wolf, howling in the distance,

Doesn’t like the water, making sounds so eerie.

He hates the forest, but it wouldn’t matter,

If only Mommy would come and lick him.

 

Little does he know, that she is no more

The only memory of her, in a mansion,

Carpeting the floor.

Once a Queen, she is now a showpiece,

Aliens walking over her, without even knowing,

All she ever wanted was to protect her child,

Alas! Her dying wish could not be satisfied.

 

All he remembers is a bang and a leap,

And then strangers taking her away, down the creek.

He searches and searches and searches,

Not knowing that what once was will never be.

He’s only a baby, but yet he understands,

The world is evil, eviler are men.

Left all alone, in this dark hell,

He finally finds comfort,

After starving to death.

SILENCE IS THE ONLY ANSWER SHE GETS

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“Why me?”

She asks her mother

Hoping, wanting, craving

A loving reply.

Mother looks at her,

Eyes filled with shame

And says,

“It must have been your fault.”


“Why me?”

She asks her father,

Thinking that he, at least,

Would understand her pain.

He turns away,

Can’t bear to look at her

As he says,

“It must have been your fault.”


“Why me?”

She asks her friends,

The ones who had promised

To be there for her, always.

They avert their eyes,

They won’t speak to her,

Not even to say

“It must have been your fault.”


Victim to a heinous crime,

Stripped of her clothes, her dignity,

She walks alone in a crowded world

Where they all say,

“It must have been your fault.”

“Why me?”

She asks herself.

Silence….is the only answer she gets.