(January 2, 2017)

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Pained by young girls waiting on shady sections of highways for customers.

Sitting on the edge of the bed
On a very chilly morning
Many men over the night fed
The young woman was groaning.

Pain it was
From all the boning and fake moaning
More in her heart that her body.

Astute she was
But the bloody poverty
Turned her into a prostitute
Using her body as property
Discarded at birth, a destitute.

To fill her stomach with food
She resorted to sell her body for good
Nights full with men like wild bull
Days empty, even though she was not even twenty.

Used, Abused
Bullied, Battered, Bruised
Pimped, Probed, Groped, Doped
Ripped, Stripped, Whipped, Raped, Ravaged
Shorn of all sensitivities
She had become totally wooden.

On a wintry night
Standing under the lamp post
Waiting for a customer
She prayed to God.

God heard her, and in a flash
A bolt of lightning turned her into ash
Joyfully she arose, shedding her body
Into the heavens fully naked.