“Deflowered Lyric” exposes the harsh realities of childhood sexual abuse by focusing on three characters. Lyric is a child whose deflowering was discovered by a trusted adult. Readers learn the fascinating details about how she handles that discovery. Also disclosed is another episode of abuse that is hidden permitting the reader to observe a parallel of Lyric’s pain between the incidents of discovery and silence. Another child Jada, is fearful of hurting her mother and therefore holds her secret sin for too long. Her secret could cost her life. And a third character Judith, as a child immediately tells of her abuse—and almost loses the person she loves. Readers learn through a series of riveting scenes how much pain sexual abuse can cause, how it thrives on false beliefs, and how it both creates and empowers survivors to begin a personal journey toward healing by breaking their silence. The writer uses poetry to introduce the scenes and life’s chapters of this fictional story about the authentic subject of deflowering children.