p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Twenty years to the day/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"did, in me, a friend confide/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"of half-told rape -/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"denied, betrayed -/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"and attempted suicide./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Only a teen, no one believed -/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"so easy to ignore./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Not the cop, "emYou wanted it/em."/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Not the beau, "emYou dirty whore/em."/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Who, by the way, left her alone/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"and met up with another./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Hitchhiking was the way to go,/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"and where it all went wrong./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"em"Don't do that!"/em She had been warned, /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"every chance they got./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"She snuck around./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"He looked 'okay.'/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"And then he wouldn't stop./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"'Accuse the girl,' was the game./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Her parents never knew./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Terrified of what they'd say,/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"and maybe blame her, too./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"The secret haunted me for weeks,/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"kept me watching my own daughter./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Did I know her childhood life? /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Was emI/em that kind of mother?/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"To turn blind eyes and deaf ears/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"on things, to me, that didn't matter./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"To scold and shame - /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"a looped refrain - /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"and cause her not to bother?/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Scared to tell of what she's done/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"because she'd get in trouble -/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"grounded and then punished for/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"defiance of her elders./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"The death of me would be silence,/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"when speaking meant the most./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"Afraid to share,em"You wouldn't care."/em/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;"When her days were at their worst./p