Elena+Lopez

The unexpected It was a rainy night walked along the road, no individual, outside quiet streets, got to the house on the left as reach to open the entrance freezing lonely living room see my gasp of air no one in sight. Filthy dishes in the sink the groceries had animals swarming around, worms coming out of the apples house filled of rats how can someone let it get like this it hasn’t been that long for anyone to be gone from here. I called for mom and dad; I didn’t hear nor see anyone I began to cry and screamed “MOMMY, DADDY!! Don’t leave me, come back, come get me please I’m pleading you please you please!” went down to a corner and sat down crawled up in a ball as my body rocked back and forward, I was paranoid of everything I heard, my body wouldn’t move my mind kept playing tricks on me I kept telling myself “I know they’re coming back, they just can’t leave me here all alone, they haven’t forgotten me, NO!! Not daddy I’m daddy’s princess” Goosebumps going thru my body I’m getting numb I don’t want to move, I don’t want to eat, “why is it that I’m losing force and all my hope? One night as I dragged myself down the long, dark and cold hallway I couldn’t get up. I have lost all of my energy it appears. I saw the broken mirror took a glance of my face full of black red shot eyes scratches everywhere, my dress was ripped, and I had mud stain all over. I have blood stains on my legs, arms tears became to fall down my face like a rain fall, my head went of wondering again, it wouldn’t stop the voice inside my head kept saying “how could I left so far? How did he find me, how can anyone stoup this low? Why is it that the princess I was turn into the ugliest thing on earth? I took a last peak and left to my bed, stared at the walls as tears fell of my face onto my pillow, I heard a squeak on the door, who can it be? Oh I hope it’s him I hope it’s my daddy, oh how I knew he couldn’t left me, oh daddy! Sudden my weakness became happiness, jumped out of bed and ran to see if it was daddy, the room was so dark I couldn’t see all I could see is a shadow, “Mom?, Dad? No respond the shadow kept walking getting closer and closer to me “DADDY?” oh father I knew you wouldn’t have left me here all alone to die, I knew you would come back, daddy I just knew you love me so much, your little princess, right daddy?? Daddy? ,Daddy are you their? Checked all the rooms I ran to see if daddy was looking for me ugh perhaps my mind is playing tricks again it wasn’t daddy. I’m going crazy it wasn’t anyone in sight my tears wouldn’t stop suddenly I became weak again, I laid in bed screaming, shouting as loud as I could tell my voice was completely gone. The door rapidly slammed “WH who’s there? Hello? Is anybody their? Daddy? Heart stared pounding like a nail I quickly ran under my bed I covered my mouth with both hands I lost couple of breath, a man coming in looking around like if he had been looking for something, he seemed like he has known every room in this place, he went room by room his boot touched my face I got scared I thought he would of found me I prayed hoping he wouldn’t look under my bed, a loud noise suddenly happen he left the room in a second, I knew that wasn’t daddy, my dad wouldn’t be covered all in black and with a mask. No it’s not him it can’t be. As the man left I got out from under the bed quietly, walked slowly in the room the man seem to have interest, “why my little sisters room?” looked around saw her favorite teddy bear graved it and sat next to her crib” oh little sister how I miss you so much, how I need you right now, as my arms stared to squeeze that teddy bear closely to my chest a burst of tears came out “I love you sister, I love you” it felt like I was on my own in this world, I need you guys please come back please, days went by, weeks, and months went by. But still no one in sight they have forgotten about me! I know for a fact, I stared wondering could this just be all a dream. “OH GOD just let it be.” Night by night dreamed the same thing, same guy keeps appearing in my dream; who can it be and why is he lying next to me? What are those touches?? What is he doing? Why can’t I see his face? Why is it so dark? My heart kept pounding: woke up when his hand covered my mouth and as he took me to the dark valley, he didn’t care that I cried and he didn’t care leaving me in the middle of nowhere. I couldn’t scream his hand was just too powerful he had power over me, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t control anything he was going he couldn’t get in so he ripped my dress the one that my grandmother has made, “shut up little girl, I’m not going to hurt you!, it’s just a game, just don’t tell anyone who I ‘am or ill go back and kill you! I had nothing to say! He beat me till I was gone, buckles his jeans and ran as fast as he could I never saw him again. What happen to me? I... I cant remember anything, where am I? WH WH why is my dress ripped? “Oh my gosh! Why is their blood on my legs? Why won’t it stop? Mommy? Daddy? Where did you go I need you help me HEEEELP me please wake me up from this bad dream I can’t handle this I’m just a little girl I’m seven years old don’t just leave me here come find me please mom please I need you here I don’t know what just happened to me I need you I don’t want to die here I want to be with you guys at home. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Dad!? DADDY!! You’re here!! I ran towards my dad to hug him but he went through me?? Huh? Please don’t let it be I don’t want to leave I still want to be here; he has been looking for me? Daddy don’t cry I’m still here daddy look at me daddy please I’m still your little princess right daddy? Please tell me you still love me, I didn’t mean to rip my dress don’t be mad please just hug me and tell me everything will be ok! “Dad? I don’t like seeing you cry please daddy do you need a hug?’’ why are you guys crying daddy? Mommy? Please tell dad to stop crying! I want to see Fatty where is she? Who are you looking at? Why am I on the streets? No that’s not me I’m right here daddy don’t cry I’m still alive; look at me I’m here right? RIGHT?!?! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">“So it wasn’t a dream I didn’t get to enjoy my life with you no I can’t I just can’t not right now. I didn’t want to leave earth, no not instill they found the guy that did this to me I know my dad wouldn’t just leave things like this find him daddy find him don’t let it go so far no not with getting justice. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I heard my dad he went into my room and he sat down next to my bed and started crying, yelling that he loves me that his sorry he couldn’t protect me, that he has fail as being a dad, he feels like he needs me here “no daddy you’re the best thing that has happen in my life I love you oh so much I love you all. And I need you here I love you, my dad found my book with drawing he saw all the paintings I’ve done of the family I had nothing else to do here I should leave now. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">It was time to leave I had everything I needed I felt complete I love that it made my family grow stronger but its time to say good bye now they light is waiting for me it looks so beautiful now I can put this aside and leave my horrible dream behind. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I’m glad things are over my little sister is not so little anymore I love coming down just to take a look at them, daddy? No no no…. don’t leave her don’t let her go take care of her, don’t daddy just find him daddy don’t let him get away with many more no don’t he needs to go daddy, “get him daddy before before he gets my little sister… BEFORE is too late!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Love.. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">He comes around singing quail, quail me <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">We watch TV and any child of time <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Magnificent ac potent…. Because the wall of… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The flashing needle rock of squatters, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">When I sleep, sleep I takes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">He told of the magnolia, spread. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I dwell in a lonely house I know <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t stay home <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">How I ramble in the mid-noon <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">And the sound of your lovely <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Naked voice leaves <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Her hair crops through my lips <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Like a thread of fiber optics <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Born with leaves under our coats, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Like nothing, until it lets me go. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Let the hummingbird come, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">To communicate with mars, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Converse with spirits,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">life

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The more we live, more brief appear <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">He wakes, who never thought to wake again <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The aching gladness, the voluptuous pain. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Lest ye die ere ye know him, and curse and misname him; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Let us follow the footprints of spring into the distant fields <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Tears from the cupped lilies, and soothe our spirits <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Just when I thought there wasn't room enough <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">For a few minutes, or worrying about rain forests <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Is on. Not a single idea emerges from it. It’s enough <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">But maybe I can come up with a compromise--I'll let <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Not mourning for the things that disappear <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">My heart will keep the courage of the quest <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">So let the way wind up the hill or down