Emmalee Godwin Poet Free verse

Dearest Mama

Words like vomit
 
Disgusting horrible things spewing from your mouth
 
The mouth that used to form the words
 
“I love you”
 
Oh how the times have changed..
 
As children I’m sure we were just so easy
 
To persuade..
 
To decieve…..
 
To control…….
 
See, little ones don’t ask the hard questions
 
The ones that have difficult answers…
 
They don’t realize what’s going on
 
They can’t see the whole picture..
 
Comprehend it.
 
They don’t understand
 
That one day..
 
Their vision will clear
 
Ignorance is bliss but now it’s gone
 
Obliterated
 
Now mommy and daddy are Always fighting
 
Screaming..shouting..
 
Violence that only happens on the inside of these shaking walls
 
Things that would normally would be kept inside
 
brushed away to the back of your mind…Shoved Away..
 
Come spilling out all at once.
 
Apalling..cruel….heinous indications…assumptions..
 
Thoughts that should’ve been banished from your mind to begin with
 
Are flowing from your angry tongue
 
The lips that used to whisper “I love you”
 
Ruining any chance of redemption
 
Any possibility that we could fix this…
 
There are so many names for what just happened
 
So many labels that you can apply to this mess
 
these last few pages of the chapter..
 
I starting a new one tomorrow..
 
Breaking off. Severing myself from this ****
 
I can see clearly now
 
and I’m not liking what I see
 
My childhood was a lie
 
Every word was a lie
 
You were a lie

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