Arizona Unidentified - Jane Doe 0009

Police were called to a business back lot,

Tempe, Arizona; University Drive, 1800 E Block.

A female unidentified three and a half years, no one has claimed,

Dead from a drug overdose, this young life has yet to be named.

With no chance to realign her vital signs,

Clues to her identity are not easy to define.

Defenseless against a shark’s bite,

A fashioned tourniquet read her last rights.

American Indian or Hispanic in decent,

Other certainties about her are either vague or absent.

130 pounds and 60-65 inches made up her frame,

Eyes of brown and long, black hair, and an obvious addiction untamed.

A trucker reported picking her up on 32nd street and Greenway Road in Pheonix on April 26, 2002,

When she said she’d lost her home because of her drug use.

She is estimated between the age of 16 and 19,

Someone out there has a daughter, a sister or a friend, unknown.

She lived a life where rainbows have lost their color and where stars have lost their shine,

Her childhood dolls have had their smiles wiped away, teddy bears gone cruelly bald, memories no longer sublime.

Praying someone loves her enough to come forward to properly lay her to rest, for that love to penetrate her lifeless cells,

to invade that tough outer rind,

Until then, she remains Arizona’s Jane Doe 0009.

©2005 Karen M. Seith