July 08, 2023 at 8:59 PM

No parent

Ever looks into the eye of their child

With so much vitriol

With so much hate

And so much disappointment 

Without meaning it

No parent

Calls their child a disgrace

A worthless piece of bullshit

A regretful thing of creation

Without meaning it 

No parent asks you to sorry afterwards

Asks you to kiss them and 

To move on

Without meaning the things

That just pierced your entire soul

No child can move on

From such a thing

From the jagged scratches 

Such words left in her heart

With doubt and dangerous ideas

Of running away, of blood, 

Swirling and mixing with the salty remains 

Of tears

No child can move on, 

Despite promises of progress

That she had become a better person

And so she is stuck in that never changing moment

Where he stares and screams, and she wonders

What is the point of continuing after.