My friend

All alone

In my prison

Hell swirling all about me

One friend

Just one

Sitting mutely in the corner

Watching me suffer in silence

A man

An evil man

Beats me with a whip

Cruelty flashing in his eyes

Others come to watch and jeer

My friend just stares at my misery blankly

They laugh at me

At my face

The face of Satan

Adoring a mere child

My friend is motionless, ever motionless

My burlap sack is yanked off

My secret revealed to a disgusted world

Naked to insults and advertised horror

My friend does nothing to intervene

When the spectators leave

I cry myself into a troubled sleep

A boy consumed by despair

My friend sheds no taers for my plight.