Dear Jesus
***AUTHOR'S NOTE: If you are the sensitive kind, or if you get offended easily, or are not able to read topics that are extremely emotional and hard to take in, DO NOT READ THIS POEM!!! I do not sugar-coat anything, I won't apologize for whatever poem my heart decides to spit out.***
Dear Jesus
I know it’s been a while
The last time we talked I guess I was crying
But not tonight you see
Tonight I’m asking you to hear me...
Dear Jesus
Please let daddy be too drunk
Please let him pass out on the couch ‘til we see the sun
I hate it when he comes around
My bed still reeks of his funk
Just like that night
When he fell asleep on top of me
And the mattress sunk
I had to hold my breath
It was like I had sex with a skunk...
Dear Jesus
Please wake momma up
She’s been sitting at the kitchen table for days now
With her marked wrists and her head down
I wonder if her white friends did it
They always knock her down
I tried moving her but her body hung
I wonder if she’s well
She’s starting to smell
Daddy doesn’t know
Every time I ask him I end up with a broken nose
No daddy doesn’t know
He knows how to unbuckle his belt
And tell me to...
********? Is that what it’s called?...
Dear Jesus
Who’s this knocking at my door?
I guess he’s coming back for more
But I refuse to cry like before
I only have one last prayer to go
Before I open up this door...
Dear Jesus
If sleep ever comes to me tonight
Please don’t ever let me wake
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