Mind Games

Love is broken, torn and melted;
Broken and spilt into pieces;
Hush! A child is a victim;
The child becomes a teenager;
Teenagers into adolescence;
Adolescence into a woman;
Woman into mistress;
A can of wounds;
Horrors unfold;
For all members of the family

Mother needs love, but never felt love;
Children long for their mother’s love;
But mother does not know how to show or share love;
Ups comes father;
Oops! A perpetrator;
The mother did not cater;
Such a life of lies and haters;
Yet silently the cycle continues;
Psychologically affecting all;
Crimes are committed yet the ripple effects continue to fall;

Echoes of my children's voices;
It never leaves, it lingers like a frightened feeling;
I blamed myself for this world of fears;
The children have suffered;
By the hands of the parents;
Would I have tried to reach out for help?
Would I have tried to escape?
Either way, escape led to divorce;

Yet the mother is free to start her life over again;
She tries to take one step forward;
To try to cope one day at a time;
But the children remain lonely, scarred and hurt;
As stages in their life differ;
Their hearts are crushed like concrete blocks;
Their memories stain and blot through their phases in life;
They struggled to stand, they are afraid to fall, yet afraid to run;
Despite the fight to survive.