Domestic Violence

Devastation is what you do to me

On it goes, perhaps it’s my destiny

Maybe if I listened better

Even still, I’m sure I wouldn’t follow to the letter

Single blows, eye swelled closed

Traumatised endlessly, I’m sure it shows

Insistent crying, baby behind my legs

Cowering, screaming… This is my fault

Vitriolic you claim, why do you make me do this you scream

Indifferent I am, not even bothering with excuses

Obedient I aspire to be, hoping you will stay

Lamenting about that which I have become

Endless denying, one day you will change

Needing you, wanting you, why must you do this to us?

Calamitous is our relationship

Embittered you have made me, now I must find the strength to leave.