Alone and Taken She was left by those that loved her; It wasn’t their fault. A single person’s denseness Cost the lives of three, And changed one forever. Alone in her innocence; Desperately trying to understand; In need of love and closure. Bounced around from place to place, New demands, dangers, and experiences; Once, even left to survive with nothing, Three long years; Best and worst ran parallel. Another loved snatched cruelly away. Crammed with others like her. Innocence long ago stolen; Scars and bruises encase her; Some visible, others not. Now she’s isolated in the middle of a crowd, Invisible to them, she knows them all, As the silenced one observes everything, And is aware of more than is realized. No one notices as she’s taken away; Another wretched life Stolen from the harsh environment In which it had fended For so long, all in vain.