Serinus canaria domestica
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Only the age of twelve
Was she
When sold into the commerce of
Sex slavery
Misfortune and injustice are
All she’s ever known
Her purity, untimely taken away
Her own body overthrown
By strange men of ire
Contempt and disgrace
There is nowhere she finds comfort
She has no hiding place
This beautiful girl has now
Become a woman
She lies awake at night wondering if
There really is a heaven
Years and years of torment
This life has drained her will
Though she smiles, her eyes are empty
She longs for a poison pill
But eventually came the day that
Exhausted the last of her spirit
She cried to the One who hears all
The One who loves even the misfits
I don’t know if You can hear me
Or if You even care
But I once heard of a Man
Who knows the number of strands of hair
On the head of a girl like me
Who cannot remember
A life without misery from
January to December
Consider me at the end of time
Look upon me with delight
So even a foreigner to receiving mercy
May have some hope despite
The tragic hardships given me
In this life I did not ask for
If I had known the world’s cruelty
Embodied in rejection and war
Then perhaps I could twist my fate
And plead to never have been born
And with that first and last prayer that ever did
Leave her lips
She allowed the calm of sleep to cover her cold heart
Like a lunar eclipse
And the very next morning
Just as she was getting up
She came face to face with a man
In a uniform, holding a cup
This is for you to drink
And he handed her the tea
I am here to save you
But only if you trust me
Finally came her saving grace
At last this was redemption
This policeman arrived at such a time
That paralleled with none but perfection
This was no coincidence
She knew she had been heard
And with a smile and idyllic eyes she flew
From that prison like a canary bird