Heavy Teenager

it starts like this:
a little girl
maybe 13, maybe 19
gets deflowered
for the wrong or the right reasons
by the wrong or the right man
to the right or the wrong family.
and the wrong or the right baby
is planted therein
to grow alive or be dead.
to become a baby’s baby.
a little girl and a little baby
struggle daily to grow
above the sting, above the stigma
and they are never the same

leonell echa