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Stealing Sunshine
March 23, 2021
You have traveled around the sun for half a century
Your branches spindled and withered from age
Constantly looming down more of a dark aura
The mind twisted with deceit disguised as wisdom
A single sprout grew in your reign of shadow
Upon viewing it, your desire conjured
Carving the sweet words into the juvenile roots
Bending the impressionable mind into your cold hands
Slowly leering the path of destruction as leaves shriveled
Eventually leaving them to face their burden on their own
Half a century you’ve traveled
Known the concepts of morality
But yet you suck the soul out of that tiny seedling
And continue to grow on your own
While they’re left to pick up the pieces
© Aaron K., Caledonia, MS
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This piece is made to veil the concept of pedophilia. I was targeted by my father during my childhood and adolescent years, and another middle-aged man was interested in me when I was 16. I believe many minors have dealt with some kind of predator, and it deserves to be talked about rather than ignored.