When I Was Five by Melissa

When I was five,
My father made me cry.

I knew he was drunk
But he was just a punk.

He made me, my sisters, and my brother
Leave my mother.

We heard our mother cry
Soon I began to cry.

My sisters an brother knew
I wanted my mother.

They went to get her
But they were threatened.

Threatened to watch or they
Would get beat also.

I went out to get my mother
An I saw my mother

She was cryin
Cryin or me, my sisters, an my brother
To listen to our father.

She took tha pain
Took tha pain for all of us.

We were forced to watch our father.
To watch our father beat our mother.

He told us if we moved he would pull tha trigger.
Tha trigger to what?

Tha trigger to tha gun
What gun?

Tha gun he had held to my motherz head.
He left my mother; he went to bed.

She held me in her arms
All night long.

Her tears runnin down
Down her bruised, hurt sad face.

I began to cry; we needed to get out of there alive.
Well twenty five yearz later

She kicked him out of tha house
He cheated on my mother an also beat her.

He'z outta this family now,
Always an forever.

My mother is happy
She'z found her man

He treats her right
Coz he knowz she had to fight

Had to fight for her life
When she was with ma father.

I disown ma father
But he'z gonna get paid back fo all

Tha shyt he did to ma mother!!!!!
Now am sixteen

Am sixteen an out fo revenge.
Revenge of ma father

He'z gonna get his a$$ kicked
When I soon get my license and a car.

Probably when I am eighteen
But he'z gonna die fo what he did to ma mother!

But when I was five
I just wanted to die.

jessi (66.66.4.38) -- Friday, January 3 2003, 01:08 am

that made me cry.

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