 
~ IMPORTANT NOTE ~
"This is a story I have never told before. Something inspired me to do so, though with great care. Sadly, it is obvious what it is about, and though it is just a "tale" it is very real in the world today. Child pornography is on the rise with many innocent young children being lured into its web for the sole purpose of gratifying those with unnatural and distasteful desires for children. Many of us turn our back and ignore its goings on....the thought being "if it's not happening to anyone we know, then it's not happening". Maybe because it is easier to cope with choosing to ignore that it really is going on. But what about those who become child pornography victims? Lured with empty promises of love and trust, and so forth. How can they ignore it when it happens to them right now? How can they ignore their faces being posted over the Internet while they are being exploited for the sheer perverse pleasures of paedophiles? It is a sad and even controversial tale, but one I felt needed to be said. Society thrives of "passing the buck" with who's to blame for many of the things which go wrong in our world....but that isn't helping the young children being exploited. It isn't helping the families whose children have been "stolen" or "sold" for explicit use within this dark underworld. Children are innocent; they are vulnerable....they aim to please others for acceptance and love. Making them easy targets for sexual predators. In this poem, I tell the story of one young girl....forced to grow up very quickly in the world in which she has become familiar with. First her pure innocence, the fact she is "untouched", is on display....then she is used and abused over and over again. She isn't as innocent as she first was, but she is young and that is what "they" like. We see her story and we feel her pain, and though she has become numb to what takes place, it still hurts. Though we see she is rescued through trading, the story of this little girl has no happy ending. For the rest of her life she will carry with her the ordeal she has suffered....and it is like a part of her has died. Gone is the innocence of the once-happy 8 year old....now all we see in her empty eyes is pain and nothingness. And all the while, as the cycle continues, and more children are being used and exploited for these purposes, society chooses to forget just who is to blame for the mess this world is in....and why grown men prey and desire little children. A sad tale that has no happy ending."
 
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