China Doll

Your skin that was porcelain
Now streaked with red
Your eyes that were filled with liveliness
Now replaced with lifelessness

Your power to fight all fought out
Your ability to think all thought out
Where is your love?
It left out the door along with olive branch dove

Word after word
Finally its over
Your spirit broken
Along with all others

Rage is rushing
Confusion is torture
What did you do
To deserve this suffering

It’s always your fault
Never once is it theirs
Their antagonism now gone
They never see what really matters

Their words cut in like lemon on a wound
Whether or not they realize their crimes
Time after time – it never gets better
Sometimes you wonder “why am I alive?”