Long, Long Ago
It all seems so far away now.All the pain from long, long ago.
Still healing I am, yet having no plan, this is the only way that I know.
Though many years have passed by.Each night I still cry,
from the trauma of long, long ago.
I was just a young boy when it happened.
Not understanding what life was about.
I was the first son,of two I was one.
The protector, I am, without any plan,
I absorbed it all up like a sponge
I accepted it all, no other would fall
To the stappings my old man would deal.
Soon I was numb, as the beatings would come
Quite quickly I learned not to feel.
The protector, I am, without any plan.
now no bullies could ever quite hurt
A child of twelve, my position I held.
Now it seems like long, long ago.
A fully grown man with finally a plan,
With my offspring well under my wing.
Their protector, for sure
this lifetime and more
Solid and true
I write this for you
my siblings, plus 3
for I am not he.
The chain fully broken
by me.
RJM 2015
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