Daddy's Little Girl

Kierra got raped the other night
Her vagina is now ripped three centimeters deeper than her pain to prove it
It was so wide that it swallowed her smile
But
She can't smile to digest joy anymore since the walls of her womb are now covered with miscarried screams that were carried out on the echoes of her voice from that night
Her mother slept peacefully
Like a butterfly resting inside its cocoon, oblivious to the world around it
Because her father was still a caterpillar trying to eat at her leaf
He use to tell her she was as beautiful as a rose
And before that night she use to believe him
just like she use to tuck her hope behind the twinkle in her eyes
that her father use to say always shined like his little star he tucked under the covers
that night Kierra couldn't help but lay delicately
as her petals were plucked of their innocence
each time her father's thorny fingers touched the 12 years of her life
that she now wanted to wilt away
that she wanted to dig up from the roots and bury deeper than the incest that was inside her

She never went to bed thinking that in her wildest dreams her reality would become her worst nightmare
or
that her father would become the predator and she the prey

and
She prayed that night
After her father kissed her forehand
with lips that burned as bright as the devils heart
After he told her if she loved her mother she would never tell her about this

So with sickness in her stomach she prayed from her heart,
'now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
and if I die before I wake
I know that God really listens to me when I pray'

That was a conversation she had with God that she was never suppose to have
She wrapped her 12 years of life inside that prayer as if it were Jesus after being born in a manger,
picked it up with her tsunami tears and wanted to push it back inside her
Which would have been easy
since pieces of her father greased the path

All Kierra wanted to do now was be born again
Into another family because the laughs she heard from her father bounced off the hallway walls and vibrated hers so much that her vocal cords started to tingle with the question,
'why am I daddy's little girl?'

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