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Wife beating daddy.

  I awoke to the sound waves of terror,It’s happening again.Tortured by visions,Of a beer glass booby trapping the floor,And a bloodied face in the mirror.And the worried faces,Reprimanded for cleaning, the mess of it all.That will remain motionless for the rest of the night.Till morning come and his demands will be heard,Enraged he declares, “no longer,Will I take the crap from this family,I do not deserve”.He does deserve.Everything that he gets.But not a wife and children.Who all wish they were dead. The garage door rises, and the banter is silence.Those precious worried faces share a glance.Those footsteps grow heavier as with the tension,And the door swings open.“Hello my loved ones”, it sounds sincere.Yet every voice trembles with fear.It’s like the eye of a hurricane,Seemingly all fine and dandy.But beware of the fury,Of the wife beating daddy.
— bloke, Jan 29, 2009

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yenti

yenti

17 years 3 months ago

Beatings

The only thing that should be beaten is a dusty carpet, maybe there are some other things also. but to harm another person in any way either, Mentally, or physically, is a capital crime. In my belief each has to answer to their own doings, when reaching the other side, so the Daddy is going to know what he has done a thousand times over. Anyway back to the poem, it is a bit complex for its change from the first part to the second and loses a bit of the readers thoughts along the way, A good edit would bring it into focus and maybe two parts with a joining thread as it is longish and the reader becomes lost, Yours With Respect Ian.T