When her child “asks who

Is my father?” she cannot

Tell a lie; a stranger

In the night, a man

Who committed a selfish

Crime. Jail for six years,

Still not enough for

The scars he left and the cuts

That won’t stop bleeding

As her belly grew

big they ordered her not to

abort as they thought

they were right to chose

the tiny unborn child over

a poor teenage girl

who didn’t deserve

this fate. Now she must tell this

innocent child “Daddy

was a rapist”