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Too late

She walked in the door 

after school that day

and saw her father waiting for her

she started to say hi 

but then he cut her off

and took a swing
and hit her hard
and then scare her for life

As she ran to her room he yelled

you are lucky that that's all I did

and next time it will be ways worse 

 

So she laid on her bed and 

wounded what she did wrong 

to deserve this kind of punishment
all she wanted is for her father to love her

 

She went to school the very next day

with a hand print on her face

her teacher pulled aside in the middle of class

and said

 

Darling are you okay

that's the 3rd time this week 

that you have had a hand mark on your face

is everything okay at school

 

but she said nothing

 

the teacher said if you ever need to talk i am right here

 

everyone could see the pain in her eyes 

but her father 

everyone could feel her desire for love 

but her father 

 

she wondered if he only saw the bad things

but never any good 

she wondered if he would ever really love her
or if the abuse would just never stop

 

she longed for love 

for trust 

and acceptance from her father

 

then one day he realized what he did to his daughter

until it was too lait and she was gone 

He never noticed what she did 

until she was gone

he never really loved her until she was gone 

the abuse never stopped until she was gone

But he never noticed why she was gone 

 

Now she is gone and it is too late

too late to say sorry 

too late to take it back

too late to say I love you

too late to say good bye

Author notes

This is the story of my life for the past 13 years.

A contest entry

This is a poem about child abuse and it is also something I had to go through and it is very scarry.

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  • halfpast4ever
    April 13

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    Your poem was great I loved the ongoing seek for love from the father that you seeked because that's what we are supposed to get from our parents. It is human nature to strive and ache for somethhing we want and know we can't have or something we want and know were supposed to have. This poem displays great emotion yet it is so tragic, it is so good yet it makes Me wanna give you and hug and tell you that things will get better because they will. I have also written a poem about a childs seek for her fathers attention yet she gets raped because she thinks that's the only way hell love her if your ever in the mood to read about bad times and things getting better then you should definitely read some of my poetry because I am living proof that life does get better.

  • I liked the poem, it was heart wrenching, wonderful, but yet painful too, i could feel the pain in the poem, how she wanted him to love her, but some how he never did. I don't understand how parents can be so mean to their children, i have been fortunate enough never to have to go through that, but i know people who have and i know what kind of things it does to them, but i thought the poem was written quite well, discribing the feelings, the only thing i noticed, and i think that its just a spelling error, but in the second stanza second line, it says wounded what she did wrong, and i think you mean wondered what she did wrong, but other than that i loved the poem and the emotion put into it.


  • mitchie
    March 16
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    so much emotion...i loved it..great job..!


  • DaniClover14
    February 7
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    one of your best poems kalyn
    seriously


  • purplemoon
    February 3

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    Oh my god. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Noboby really know what abuse is until you've gone through it I am fortunate enough not to have to go through this but I mean wow. This is a very expressional and very sad poem. I have never been able to grasp the magnitude of what abuse really is and now I guess i know. Very emotional write. Keep Writing.
    ~Kathryn~ (aka,watergoddess101)

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