A mother tears.

Happy Mother day. Woman bare the glory and honor of protecting their children. Look into a eyes of a woman. You can learn a million stories of what life is.

 

       

   

         A  mother tears

She was a beauty.

My mother was 5 foot 8 inches in height.

She was a  slim young lady with dreams and hope.

She didn't listen to her parent.

She marry a man with rage and hate as his strength.

No-one would hear her cries or scream for help.

No-one would see the bruises and mental abuse given.

My step-father rarely hit her where the bruises could be seen.

He has a smile and good nature till he drank and hated everyone.

Step-father blamed the world for his screw-up life.

He told me he never had a fair chance.

His anger could not be controlled.

Wars and life left him pissed off and hateful.

I remember trying to help my mother.

I was 4 or 5 years old and try to separate and protect her.

He tossed me across the room.

She would try to fight back.

I could hear her cries as he hit her.

He was too powerful.

I was afraid even as a child he would kill her.

One evening a 23 year woman with two kids boarded

a Greyhound bus and they went to New Mexico.

She hid there doing waitress work for cash money.

We didn't come back to Michigan for years.

Step-father marry again and abused  more woman.

I learn never to hit a woman the hard way.

Back then woman didn't have safe houses.

Today I pray we don't allow fear and abuse to be hidden.

Woman and children need safe houses and protection.

    Coyote

     December 

Author's Note

Happy Mother day to my wonderful mother. She kept herself strong and positive throughout the years. We need to be thankful for someone who would risk their life so their kids could have a fair chance.

Reviews

[Valentine]

A very deep and painful write. There are so many people with a story like yours that hold it within and do not have the courage to talk about it and get help for the buried feelings they have stored. Yes, they have shelters now, where I worked in one were 18 t-shirts with a picture of the wife who did not live through their spouses abuse. Valentine

[Coyote Poetry]

Too much violence dear poet. I will never understand how a man could hurt a woman? We are raised by our mother, Grandmother and can have sisters.

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

I really like how you arranged the form as to be spoken through the mind of the young boy~ I can almost here the sigh in the lines~ a deeply moving opening on domestic abuse and human relations twisted sideways~
I have known a few males like this~

and this particular line . . . .

She marry a man with rage and hate as his strength.

I intimately understand~ because I did the same thing once upon a lifetime ago before I grew up ~and grew world and human wise~


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[Calypso]

She sounds like a wonderful women. I like the photo of her.

[Helpless]

gorgeous work and touching really

[RTB]

Great mothers day poem man it was flat out beautiful and i respect the message
much respect RTB

[Vanessa Rico]

I hate that women have to go through such abuse...and it is hard for their children to bear witness to such atrocity...but your mother was strong for you...and got away! Your mother was an amazing one...and I felt her love for you in this beautifully crafted poem!

[Rene Velez]

A shame that the thought even exists

[Joiedevivre]

Your poems always speak volumes, far beyond their lines. Another scream of a poem delivered smoothly. Excellent!

The poem was beautiful and sad..and your mother (I presume, the one in the picture) was gorgeous!

[TJ]

Wow, was that hard to read! but that's the mark of good writing, it evokes emotions within the reader. Man did you do that ! The emotionsand descriptions in this poem are so raw and so blatant, it throws it right into the face of the reader. And it tells such a sad story with such a good ending and message. I hope now woman has to suffer this type of treatment anymore.

[trainwreck]

this was beautiful. Great job. I love your style or narration.