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Child Abuse

Mama, he has taken his leather belt off

My soft skin will be the addressee

Slashing me till there's blood in my cough

Mother, won't you please save me?


Nine years have passed since the incident

And yet I remember like it was yesterday

He tells me that I was just an accident

And when I finally faint, he just walks away


Mama, is this all that I'm good for?

Mama, is this all that I'll ever be?

A punching bag rented by the hour

A defected piece with no warranty


The cigarette burns cover my entire back

I can barely sleep when it's dark

His fingerprints are painted on my neck

I tell people that it's just a birthmark


His senses, he lost the day I was born

The smell of alcohol lurks on his breath

There's a six feet hole in our front lawn

With his own hands, he will put me to death


Is he a saint, or an alcoholic pedophile?

How do I even call this man my father?

I know we haven't talked in a while

But you shouldn't have left me, mother!


You shouldn't have left me.