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Face Down, Leave Now

November 7, 2009
By Anonymous

"Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now,
as she falls to the ground?"

This drunken life that you live,
it needs to come to a halt,
days are getting harder to survive,
none of this will ever be my fault.

You need to leave right now,
I know that you don't care,
not one more day will I ever allow,
these reckless painted actions that I wear.

'Mother, can't you just get rid of him,'
an un-confident child declares,
it's not just a sudden whim,
it's that every night he is drunk, she is scared.

"Well I'll tell you my friend,
one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down,
a new life she has found."


The author's comments:
The beginning and ending stanzas are from the song Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit. I incorporated the lyrics in because it fits with the rest of the poem. This is a poem about my friend whose step dad hits her and abuses her. No person deserves that, and the sad part is her mom doesn't even care.

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