My daughter asked me a question just the other day,
She said to me, “mommy, are you sure your back is really okay?”
She heard me pleading to my husband last night,
He whipped me mercilessly after a vicious fight.
It wasn’t the first time my husband had been violent,
And I’d tried so hard to be so silent.
But the pain of the belt hurt too much,
Even still with my daughter’s gentle touch.
That night my husband was in an even worse mood,
And he got angry when I overcooked his food.
He handcuffed me and shoved me to the floor,
The next morning I couldn’t get out of bed, I was much too soar.
I try so hard to cover the bruises,
And work so hard to come up with reasonable excuses.
For my daughter’s sake I put up a brave face,
But last night she saw my husband throw that vase.
It scared her and she ran to her room,
Not wanting to see me face my doom.
Her father slammed me against the wall,
She saw me looking so fearful and small.
Night after night she listens to her father’s rage.
She knows so much at such a young age.
I know she loves me and can’t stand to see me hurt,
And as much as I deny it, she knows he makes me feel like dirt.
Late one night she watched from the stairway,
As her father once again made me pay.
He knocked me unconscious and continued to beat me,
It was a devastating thing for my daughter to see.
Now here my daughter stands at my grave,
Trying so hard to be more brave.
Why mommy, she asked, did you have to stay?
Mommy, you lied, it’s not better this way.
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Wow! thinking that this isn't true for you but you wrote it with so much depth and inside. It's a gift that you can live yourself into senarios with so much detail. The horrors of the effects of domestic violence are often lived by the most inocent of the victoms... the children. you have done a marvelous job at putting light on an evergrowing horror
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The sad fate of so many innocent victims. Violence and abuse is a way of life for some. Children do pay the ultimate cost for this madness. Their minds are scarred for life. An excellent depiction of the horrors and ultimate outcome of domestic abuse.
Good Job!
Azlyn
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This is amazing. It may not be true for you, but there are so many other people out there going through this exact situation. I don't know what I would do if I was in their shoes. You really captrued the emotions and brought them to life! <33 JLynn
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Not a true story for you butI am sure it is true to someone. You have written a very ggod poem here about abuse. There are to many men who think that there wife is there for them to take out frustration on. Hopefully this will help someone get out of that type of situation.
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