A girl not yet a woman 

 

But still a prize to be won 

 

A song to be sung 

 

An ass to be grabbed 

 

A girl not yet a woman

 

Yet she’s 12 but still she’s too “fast” 

 

Too grown 

 

For her own good 

 

A girl not yet a woman 

 

But she still earns stares from men twice her age 

 

Men who hoop and holler while she’s still in her school uniform

 

A girl not yet a woman

 

But yet you call her a whore

 

After she came to you about something that happened 

 

That made her feel like life was chore 

 

Not an experience but a burden 

 

A girl not yet a woman 

 

Still grabbed and used like one 

 

Abused like one 

 

A girl not yet a woman 

 

Only 15 but somehow she was asking for it 

 

Her skirt was too short 

 

Her stares where too long 

 

Longing eyes they said

 

“All my homeboys said she liked it rough”

 

So I didn’t bother to ask 

 

A girl not yet a woman 

 

Her innocence long gone

 

Now she carries around a gun 

 

Cause last time pepper spray didn’t stop nothin  

 

A girl not yet a woman 

 

Not a woman but shares the fears of one 

 

A girl who was too young to know the dangers of what

 

Lurked around with strangers 

 

Or even that man your mother calls her brother 

 

A girl not yet a woman 

 

Trust long gone 

 

A girl not yet a woman 

 

Somehow singing a siren song 

 

Calling you towards her apparently 

 

A girl not yet a woman