When the Night Comes

When the night comes

I still weep my tears as the years go by

all the torment from the Nazareth House

nuns and priest abuse come forward

to haunt me in my dreams

waking me up while screaming with fear

As my husband tries to calm me down

Because I am shaking in horror and fear

When the night comes I have a cup of Milo

to try to ease my pain

But as I lie in bed

the demons come back again

Will I ever rid myself of this fear

As the Nazareth House nuns and priest

Are on my mind

and are always here

God help me!

calls out this little child in fear

Why! OH Why!

the little child cries,

why are they still here

When the night comes

As l lie awake in bed

I am tormented and in pain

by the evil demons

who haunt me yet again

If only for one night

they would leave me in peace

For the Nazareth House

orphan child in me

gives in to the horrid beasts

When the night comes

she is too fearful to sleep

Because as always her dreams

are of the nuns and priest

The little child asked

How much pain must I take

As I see the belt coming down on me

At night still in my dreams

Don't do this the little child cries

As she tries to wake  From her dreams

When the night comes

everything is so quite in the house

I hear my heart beat

which is bleeding and aching within

From the abuse of the

beatings and thrashings

the Nazareth House nuns had done

When I was a child in their care

still torments me

and the nuns and priest do not care

When the night comes

I have gone though life

with fear of the nuns and priest

the pain and torment they did

is still with me as well as their beast

When the night comes

I cry myself to sleep

with the terror and fear of the nights

while the little girl inside of me

crosses her arms like a cross

On her right side she must sleep

so as the devil will not temped her tonight

Copyright@ 2001 Ann Thompson

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