Stayed Too Long A tear cascades down her reddened cheek crying about a life so sad and bleak the pain within her ruptured heart continues to rip her soul apart abused, battered, and trembling with fear her wounds hidden behind false cheer openly she smiles, privately she cries makeup can't cover the pain in her eyes friends and family knew the score begging her to take no more again she smiled and talked of love quoting the word from GOD above time has passed and so has she her smiles and denial a tormented memory the love of her life sits in a cell she can rest in peace, he'll rest in hell....... Bob Shank-Nov.,2004 "Any male who abuses a child or a woman, does not deserve the title of man, as he is still a boy who has yet to deal with his adolescent inadequacies"..Bob Shank-July 2004