Only In America

Only In America

Only in America
Can a man assault his daughter
Beat her up
For self satisfaction
Leaving her body bruised
Her mind traumatized ~
For life ~
And get away with it

Only in America
Can a "Christian" man
Assault his daughter
On a Sunday morning
And allow his live in girl friend
To join in on the assault

Only in America
Will Child Protective Services
Take pictures ~
Of a child’s ~ bruised body
Then ~ send her back home ~
With her abusers ~
Never doing a follow up

Only in America
Will you be told from a CPS worker ~
"Her father loves her very much"
If causing such physical pain
Such emotional pain ~ is love
God help us all

Only in America
Will District Attorneys
Smile at you as they say ~
"This is the first offense"
The charges will be dropped"

Only in America
Will a child look at you
With no self esteem and ask
"Why did they send me back there"
"Why didn’t they protect me"

Only In America
Will a mother look at her child
With tears in her eyes
A lump in her throat
And fear in her heart ~
Tell her daughter ~
"I don’t know"

Only In America ~
We have ~ laws that are not laws
Only in America
We have ~ children killing children
Only In America
Children are not safe to go to school
Only in America
We ask "Why"

Only In America
We say ~ "our children are out of control"
Only in America
We pass ~ "blame" onto our children

Our children are not out of control
Our family court systems
Our District Attorneys
Our Child Protection Services
Our Department of Education
Are paid by our tax money
To pass the blame onto our children

Only in America
"God Bless America"
The land of the free
God help us all

This is dedicated to:
my daughter
my son

Dawn
3-24-2000
DPoet4u@aol.com

"Only In America" used with permission of DPoet4U@aol.com
Patriotic symbols a part of the poem and not the graphic set.

Midi Sequenced by Don Carroll, Houston, TX
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