Daddy Stop...
She sits in the corner
All balled up
Imaging…
Thinking…
What could she do?
Why was it happening?
Her mother was hit before
More than once
By her father…
Everything was fine…
Right? …
It seemed that way,
But everything was not fine
Her mother has been hurt
Both physically and emotionally
Her problem is
She hurts too,
This is because she can’t do anything
Nothing to do
She sits there and watches
As tears fall down her face
All the pain she holds
Wishing he would hit her instead
In this thought
She screams, “STOP!”
Wanting to distract him
So her mother could run
But her mother
In protection of her baby
Stays there so he wouldn’t come after her
She begs her father to stop
He does for now…
As he walks out of the room
Only to get a belt
She should’ve kept her mouth shut
But at least her mother is away for now
She lets him beat her
He then stops
She looks at him in tears
He walks out the door
She runs into her mothers arms
Her mother kisses her forehead
She kisses her mother
She says, “I love you mom”
“I did this for you”
Her mother silences her
Her mother knows it’s not over
She wishes it was
Her mother knows when she speaks out of turn
SMACK, CRASH, BOOM
Here we go again…
Right back to the beginning…