Fear

As night draws near
A rising fear
Encroaches all of her
Emotion. As year after year
The torture and pain
And hurt remain
Gnawing deeper into a soul -
A great, black hole
Causing a nightmare, a vision
With an uncanny precision
To linger on refusing to go.
She screams - "Daddy No!!"

23rd April, 1992 - Skegness, Lincolnshire, England.

I wrote this after hearing Josh MacDowell tell about some harrowing stories of child abuse at Spring Harvest in 1992.

-Richard