The Bible is a tricky thing, with ideas
going first one way, and then another,
but Molly felt deep the sins of her father
visited upon her, a child, who dared, once
to smile in his presence, and then no more.
This is Molly, who dared once, and learned
a smile is seen as a challenge, to the guilty one,
and a challenge not put down, may rise again.
Molly’s sin of smiling was small, compared
to the sins of her father, but he won, and she lost.
He won, over his daughter’s sense of her own self.
She lost trust, and faith in the idea of her worth.
Molly lost her mother, her father, and her virginity.
She lost, if she ever even had, parental love,
and lost her smile, slapped from her face. Forever?
Will Molly, can Molly, ever find her smile again?
Will anything in her life, ever again seem something
to be smiled at, even carefully? Or, as with chasteness,
is a lost smile something, never to get back again,
and so Molly remain forever damaged, broken?
Molly, oh Molly please seek help, there are resources out there to help you, and others like you. Domestic abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse, child abuse, child sexual abuse, these are crimes, and the perpetrators should be charged and dealt with via the court system. No-one adult of child, should feel unsafe in their own home.
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 