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66243, Beautiful Girl. Posted by Origin05, Wed Mar-28-07 11:52 PM
I know my shit is long but someone give me some feedback.. this one isn't going to be "understood" so much by males.. its a relation piece dealing with the corruption of young women.
Beautiful Girl
I’d like to take an issue up with you for a moment Cause I’ve been watching your actions But questioning your motives
Questioning each tear falling Into a pond Of regretful action That you sing not in psalm but song
Motives masked behind minor keys Pentatonic chords falling Into Another S O Un D Of stalling Not of lighthearted years But of heavy hearted Tears
Cry it out Let it go Let the tears Lift the burdens of maturity From your soul
Embrace youth that has been bled out of you Replaced by empty bottles And blunt wraps And acts of sin Like making Salat with bottles of gin Emptiness has subsided into the temples Of peace/piece Letting purity leave after Piece/peace And singing Billie Holiday God bless the child that gets her own
Maintain practice of childhood Hula hoops and numbers Adrift in the mind of a lost soul Like watching matches of hop-scotch On dirt roads And jump rope On summer asphalt Smell of summer rain falling from clouds And the assurance that someone is always there Dry tears Fall from saturated eyes Scraped knees and lullabies Are what you are now A shadow Shadows dancing on walls Lit By the faint flicker of candle Standing stiller Than death Hands abreast And eyes drying tears As you fall on your knees And acknowledge your existence
Acknowledge YOUR identity The truth of the matter is Your redemption Is your sanity Your truth will set you free To Flee From the 16 years of torment That really weren’t so bad When living in past memories Of boo boo’s And butterscotch disc’s And peppermint church candies And an Eskimo kiss But 16 years removed And an adult In a child’s world Its okay to cry With those dry eyes And faint stares.
Because we deal with growing pains And regret Innocence lost To those who steal Taking advantage of what we as humans hold dear Purity Non corrupted by the hand of danger Stranger things happen To those unprepared For the effects of liquor and cocaine Bare the weight And levity Of a young souls disposition quick to be robbed And facing inquisition Iniquity of her true form On trial By those false lies That have had your soul tied In oppressive ropes of patriarchy Weighing on your soul Learning the place of a woman Is on her knees And not standing high on pedestals of gold Beautiful girl You are treasure Brighter than the sun Loving yourself is not difficult You can pick up the pieces You can glue them together You can be whole Just try to see The glass angels That fall from the trees Like glass rebels Rebelling against the rage of the sea And breaking into shards Your crystal staircase may be wood And inlaid with splinters that hurt the Soles Of feet that grapple with the struggle To move forward Your glass can be collected And await the time for you to Realize your tribulation as grace And pick up the pieces And start a new day
Beautiful girl its okay to cry your dry tears Because I have cried them too And my heart lies within you.
- Jillian Smith aka Origin 2007
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66267, RE: Beautiful Girl. Posted by ASIEM, Thu Mar-29-07 02:23 PM
oh this can be understood by men since it is a plight we see everyday some of us are perpetrators while others are defenders often trying to change the direction of these "Beautiful Girls" too many however are not vicitims as they are volunteers looking for love in all the wrong places the only thing with that is it has no gender on it. this is well written and felt you capture my attention in your writing so pleeze... "keep pennin till the earth birth's your rightful seed then nurture it wit more ink..." ASIEM "Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran (Be and it is) " A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder
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66311, Yeah ... Posted by PhotoSynthesis, Fri Mar-30-07 12:06 AM
What ^He^ said! -- :9
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66318, I feel what you're saying... Posted by Origin05, Fri Mar-30-07 12:52 AM
the implication in the second to last stanza is that her "innocence was robbed"... thus she lost her innocence to violation/rape/molestation and it was one of the spring boards for the issues she is dealing with now.
I've been raised by my father but have had a host of beautiful girls (I'm the youngest in the extended family) and now that I'm older I completely recognize the things they suffered through.
Trust me I'm a Feminist but far from a male basher.. Thanks for your feedback as always and I'll continue to write for as long as people read.
Much Love. Origin
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66333, RE: I feel what you're saying... Posted by ASIEM, Fri Mar-30-07 12:43 PM
i personally know a woman who i have been intimately involved with who is a victim of molestation/rape/incest who also bore a child from it (more than there is room for here to really discuss) however the need to heal no matter what that takes is the real concern.
"keep pennin till the earth birth's your rightful seed then nurture it wit more ink..." ASIEM "Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran (Be and it is) " A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder
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