Shattered Innocence - K Rino

May every child who goes astray

Eventually find their way, one day

Let’s go

A happy man and wife, life worth while

Married two years then they had their first child

He was so excited though it was not a boy

His little princess soon became his pride and joy

Believed in family, that was his universe

She was brought up knowing God, raised in the church

She was sheltered by her father’s safe ways

Elementary school to middle school straight A’s

Couldn’t tell it all this is just a summary

Everybody talked about how great she’s gonna be

And she was on that path but no too far along

Now she at school seeing things she never saw at home

Class mates wild, starting trouble up

The other girls wearing skirts, she was covered up

Curious thoughts in mind she tryna walk the line

But now she wondering what she been missing all this time

Once it’s gone all you can do is reminisce

Broken pieces of a young life shattered innocence

Before and after, then and now no resemblance

Hope and pray you never have to echo these sentiments

A change was happening slowly but who could tell

Tired of following the rules, started to rebel

She not the same girl her grades dropping off

Talking back, attitudes, mouth popping off

Her mama getting scared, what should we do then?

She at the school running with a clique of new friends

She they checked the room and saw a bigger threat

Found some weed and a half a pack of cigarettes

Tried to talk to her, she wasn’t listening

So daddy implemented some physical discipline

Back to the old school, he put that belt on her

No abuse but he left a couple of welts on her

She told her home chick, «I need to move quick

I done grew sick of this, my daddy too strict»

Tripping from A to Z, that ain’t the way to be

Her friend said, «I got the remedy, come stay with me»

Been out the house a month, her new life was deep

She went from school everyday to maybe twice a week

No more curfew now she can go wherever

He friend’s mama real cool they all smoke together

Happy that she was free, no longer in solitude

Wild and rude, having sex with a college dude

That life didn’t play around man, it took her early

Seventeen but them drugs got her looking thirty

But she so naive she don’t regret her deeds

Her parents feeling like they never should’ve let leave

Now five months later the wounds are opened more

Happened to run into her father in the grocery store

Right at that moment then he saw his world end

She said, «Daddy, I’d like you to meet my girlfriend»

He wondered long as he painfully drove home

«How could I do everything right and it still goes wrong»