Freedom Found

Buy Dispute

By: Tenna Perry

Pain filled fireworks
Explode with each blow
Fists pounding reminders
Of imagined misdeeds

Tearful apologies
Croaking beyond
Bruised throats strangled
By a “loved one’s” hands

Pleas on knees
Fall upon uncaring ears
As a foot kicks
Breaking another rib

Arms protect
The enlarged belly
Poor child conceived
In a drunken rage

She has felt the lash
Of a leather belt
The wooden whack
Of his baseball bat

The second time
He used a knife
Was over a pot
Of under cooked rice

Afraid, alone
She has no one
He has forbidden
All friends to call

This is love
She knows for sure
Her Daddy showed Mommy
For forty years

Suddenly her head
Receives the heel
Darkness falls forever
As her soul flies free

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