Innocence Erase

A Poem By Mairead // 11/3/2009

innocence and grace
the treasures of her faith
as a baby into a child
she is unsoiled, pure and mild

but then time passes and she grows
into someone who doesn't care to know
someone who gets lost in fads
only because it's what society says

she becomes the phone she holds
not because of force, she chose
just because the world pushed it
she has squeezed herself in to fit

innocence erase
the mask she holds to hide her face
take from her a life of sorrow
before she gets what she borrows

sees a girl on the street
begging for money or something to eat
she looks away from what is poverty
but does she know that her life is foppery?

gets into the game of love
turns around to find it fun
but then it's not what she wanted
and she feels wronged and brokenhearted

innocence erased
in that little time and space
when she took a stupid step and fell
she thought she was doing well

then she was left all alone
she has no friends and no one to hold
living in a nightmare now
she sees what life can be about

she looks to the sky to find some grace
she closes her eyes and hides her face
tears glide down the sin soaked heart
and she believes in the healing of falling apart

innocence increased
something that was hard to believe
and yet the way was found
though the darkened paths were hard

her true beauty has broken out
sometime, somehow
there's always hope when the seed is planted
from the day when life is granted