Dark

12: 1  Stumbling drunk,

The alley is dark, 

But not as dark as what’s inside,

 12: 2  Something sinister,

Steadies my stride, 

12: 3  I’m being led, By something primal, 

Feeling stalked by it, Since my arrival, 

12: 4  For forty dollars,

I can be king, 

12: 5  Alone in a single room, she lives, 

To strangers, Her body she gives, 

12: 6  Probably sold by her family For a debt they owed, 

Still ashamed, By the selfishness I showed, 

12: 7  Looking back through decades of time, 

Our innocence lost,

More than forty dollars,

My soul it cost.

JEV