Trafficking in the Suburbs 

It does not matter where she lives.

It does not matter who she is.

No matter if her skin is white

Or brown, dark or light—

A child:  she can be intimidated;

Her future, her voice eliminated.

She is ripe for trafficking

The first second no one’s looking

So, look, then!

Hear! Now, care!

The signs of her are everywhere!

Her life depends on you

And whatever you might do.

Educate her.

Liberate her.

Retrieve her life from male demand,

Hold her body as sacred as holy land

Renewed and rinsed of horror.

Now, are you looking for her?

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Dr. Carole R. Fontaine