Don'T Make Me Have To Hurt You Again
Don’t Make Me Have to Hurt You Again
By Elton Camp
To explain her bruises and black eyes
Sue invents excuses and valiantly tries
Robert has been beating her some more
But she’ll cover for him just as before
Each time her mate apologizes and cries
But his promises prove to be more lies
She wonders if perhaps it is her own fault
If she was a better wife then it might halt
In fact, he is nothing but a vicious brute
Who, long ago, deserved to get the boot
“He’s my husband & I love him, she said
Finally one day, her family found her dead
The only defense Robert was able to make
“Ever to have married her was a big mistake.”
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