Mommy lives in the dark

A Poem by Sabrina Rauch

Darkness can be more than just hidden secrets and scary memories.

My room is full of darkness every night and I keep begging my father to buy me a night light or allow me to sleep with the lights on but he refuses. "You are freaking ten Billy. Quit being suck a wimp! Be a man!" He would throw his empty beer bottles at me so I would leave him alone. I would look at Mommies picture and cry begging for her to come back and make daddy stop. "Mommy. Make the man at the foot of my bed go away again." I kept talking to her picture until daddy came in again and smacked me out of my bed. "Shut up! Your mom is dead ya big baby!" I held my bleeding cheek and glared at him. He laughed. "What ya going to do about little man!? You are just a stupid kid believing in fairytales! No one is in this room so quit acting like a baby and grow up ya little brat!" Daddy disappeared after that but the man at the foot of my bed walked towards me. Sweet promises he whispered in my ear and I started to laugh. Daddy came back in. This time with a knife. "I told ya to shut up!" Daddy was thrown across the room and the knife flew into my chest. Mommie had told me before that death was painless but it hurt worse than when I pulled out a broken piece of glass that daddy stuck in me. I fell o the ground and saw the man rip out daddy heart and eat it. He looked at me and smiled. Faster than I could the man ripped the knife out of me and took me away. "He won't hurt you again Billy." Mommie smiled at me in her arms. She was the man at my bed every night. She helped me with cleaning up my wounds. My mommy saved me from daddy