by Helen Austin

Created on: December 19, 2010   Last Updated: March 05, 2011

Demons:

Screaming and beating her fists on her head

A child looks helplessly on, afraid,

Enveloped in guilt, was it something she said?

Demons of old, yet memories fade,

Unceasingly chanting, uncontained rage,

Father, calmly trying to placate his wife,

The child, a daughter 5 years of age,

Her mother threatening to end her life,

Silent despair growing inside her mind,

The child only wants to be good,

brother beats her, she’s bad, not kind,

only an invisible friend understood.,

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