Somebody's Daughter



She is somebody's daughter
but now she belongs to the streets,
where she dances with the traffic
begging for kindness.

The headlights shine on her
illuminating her hollow face,
ragged body and torn dirty
clothes.

I look at her and wonder,
was she ever pretty,
did she ever wear a frilly dress
did she ever look her best.

I wonder if she ever had an
easy life, where she was loved and
cared for
perhaps somebody's wife?

Maybe her life was brutal from the start,
an un-wanted child from a broken home
neglected by her parents.

Maybe that's why she's an addict

Maybe she never had a chance

The only thing for certain is that
she is somebody's daughter

About this poem

I often see drug addicts in the street when I'm driving to work at night. One night I saw this woman and she made me think about my daughter who thankfully isn't an addict

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Written on September 09, 2023

Submitted by joec63 on October 16, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axxx axbx abxx xxax xxx x x xA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 656
Words 137
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2

joseph Crann

I'm just an ordinary guy writing down the observations I see in life. I have written over 700 poems but have never been published. I am trying to read every poem from my favorite poet Charles Bukowski. I am also influenced by Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison. Hopefully someday I might win a contest or get published. Poetry is an escape into your soul and that's why I love doing it. more…

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