Awoke the sleeping city

She walked down the dimly lit alley
lost in a world of bakery needs,
diplomas and the world of possibilities
that a seventeen year old has.
Imaginations of future plans on the cusp
of her thoughts when the driver
slows down and a mask jumps out.
As his dark hair sauntered up to her shadow,
he took it upon himself to take her
simplistic life and darken it with
unwanted desire as he
careened into her body,
tossing loose her soul.
Giving her legs a final, lasting break
from walking and her heart
moments lost in a stammer.
Her lips awoke the sleeping city as
her scream shattered dreams and her cry
catapulted from the depths of despair.
For time withered away the hurtful memories,
but her dreams have kept them alive.
She has learned to live with a yearning
for death as that would end
the sleepless nights that haunt her,
it would stop the chair from confining her
and her future could still be hers.