A Play of a Family

Enter stage left
a family of three
a mother,a father,
and a little baby girl

 

Look at them smile
Look at them laugh
swooning over the new member
of this perfect family

 

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Enter stage right
a tired husband
after a day of tedious work
ignoring his wife and his child

 

Now look at the mother
with circles under her eyes
and her hair a mess
trying to calm a whining infant

 

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Enter now
a six year old child
arriving home from her first day of school
with a smile painted on her face

 

But wait
there's something wrong
Her parents are facing each other
silently screaming

 

The mother,
she throws a ring down
and storms out,
leaving stage left

 

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The girl is playing and waiting,
the mother, she looks agitated
The father walks in, with another woman
attached to his arm

 

The once happy couple glare at each other
the girl, she barely notices
she runs and hugs her father
and leaved gleefully with him for the afternoon

 

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Enter the mother and the daughter
so many years have past
She's in high school now
all grown up

 

They're fighting
about the meeting with the principal
she had broken another rule
but what else is new?

 

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They're both crying
The daughter, she's pregnant
She's confused and scared and lonely
She's only 16

 

Her mom hold hers
and tells her everything will be ok
but will it?
If only they knew...

 

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Screaming and the slamming of doors
They're fighting again,
like they do most of the time now
She's planning on leaving

 

She doesn't know where she'll go
She's not staying at the place she once called home
Not with her mother
Only her and the baby alone together

 

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She doesn't come around anymore
Not for Christmas
or her own mom's birthday
No one comes to see this lonely mother

 

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Enter center stage
nobody
Not such a perfect family
anymore

Reviews

[Poetic Wolf]

Upon a stage this would indeed present a powerful statement of how life can change drastically.