Perversions of Time
The house flickers the quiet of unlit pine.
Television on. Two children, five and two,
watch the man bend the spoon with his mind,
scooping the chalice free of impunity.
Five years give way to thirty more. Thirty
spent watching those first five remind.
5/31/17
For: I Should Not Have Looked
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose
Dedicated to all children victimized by sexual abuse.
Copyright © Phillip Garcia | Year Posted 2017
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