Out Of The Darkness Poem by Pearl L Johns

She walks the street late at night
a lost child without a home
looking for a way out of the darkness.
She had ran away from the life she had before
one where a demon beat her down with his fists
and abused her not only physically but emotionally.
But she has just traded one demon for another,
now the glaze in her eyes shows the spiralling murder to her soul.
The track marks on her arms, the liquid fire in her veins
provide the false strength she needs to do what she
must to survive.
She is a seductress in the night,
night time is her time.
For her the sun doesn't seem to shine.
Where did her childhood go?
Did she ever really have one?
She looks at the skies above
and wishes for an angel from Christ
to come and take her away from this place.
From out of the darkness and into the light.