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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 137 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2 |
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