Little Faces
Content Warning: This poem might be triggering for people with (unresolved) childhood trauma. Please approach this poem with intense care for yourself if you've lost a parent, faced violence in your childhood or have been witness of violence/war. You don't need to read this poem if you don't want to. ‘Little Faces' Little faces with innocent frowns what was their mistake? They lost the parent they could've loved when the other tore their souls apart. They lived a life with a bomb ticking next to their soiled pants not knowing when it might explode. Little faces with innocent frowns what was their mistake? They deserved love, kindness and giggles but all they saw was hate, pain and brutality. They slept with a knife twisting slowly in each of their parent's body. What sorrow feels like, ask them and they'll know. What losing your childhood in the hands of violence feels like, ask them and they'll know. Grown ups with shattered e...
