Not that it’s still a story.
It’s not.
Nothing to be told
that isn’t old
and yet still told
tenfold.
So, here goes:
Dude became a brute
who immediately embraced
her abuse.
From their wedding night on,
her life was a sliding scale
of beatings.
His “gentle touch”
proof in the burn marks,
born of boredom.
Tattoos disguised bruises.
Trips and falls
Were her fault
Until she slid off the scale,
in overload.
Three years on the chain,
now ‘broken’
Nothing left to give,
she gave up.
And as much as you think
the mother was wronged,
save your pity,
and your prayers,
for the daughter
she left him
behind.
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