He Thought I Had Cancer

He thought I had cancer
He had been told
By a higher source
Then doctors you know.
Kill the cancer 
They told him
Help her to heal
Kill the cancer 
They commanded
Beat her body clean

The mind so absence
In his mental way
His strength so superior
He beat me his way
Across the room he made me fly
And then over the lounge
To rearranged its style
He kneed my ribs
And never thought twice
The voices controlled 
I thought I would die
He hit me and punched me
And pushed me around
He hurt me and broke me
And tortured my mind

Then when he was done
And I lay in my pain
He didn’t even care
That I wasn’t the same
My arm hang down limply
My body bent double
The pain was unbearable
And I was in trouble

I need a doctor I told him
My arm is not right
I need you to take me
I looked such a sight.

I can’t  he said,
I’ve done what I done
Its for your own good
You won’t come to no harm.

With tears blinding me
And pain shooting through
I drove myself there
My love broken in two

What happened to you
They wanted to know.
I fell, I lied, over my toe
What happened to you
They asked me again
They knew I was lying
But I hid in my shame.

X-rays where called for
And scripts for the pain.
Two fractured ribs
A dislocated arm
One fractured collar bone
I just wasn’t the same. 

And again they asked me
“What happened to you?”

I couldn’t tell them
What my husband had done
I couldn’t believe it
As I drove myself home 

I just couldn’t comprehend
That he didn’t even care
That he sat there so righteously
And gave me a glare
You hurt me I told him
You really hurt me
But his world was not here
And he didn’t understand.

Copyright © Robyn Blauw | Year Posted 2007

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