Battered Child

Flashing back to my childhood days
Remembering the terror and pain
Why did he have to do those things
Was he simply insane?

Everytime I close my eyes
Can't help seeing his cruel face
Recalling trying to squirm away
When he tried to wrap me in his embrace.

Cold hands all over me
As he shook me to and fro
Completely at his mercy
My head about to blow.

Yanking me by the hair
Causing untold sorrow
Always living in fear
What will happen tomorrow?

Someone who's supposed to love me
Spends their time being so cruel
Have to spend all of my days
Hiding my bruises when in school.

So many bones broken
Countless tears cried
Does he really hate me?
Is he a monster deep inside?

When I think of my childhood
Only those memories remain
A sick monster hurting a child
And playing his twisted games.

Don't remember laughs
Don't remember smiles
Remember not wanting to hurt
Thinking nothing was worthwhile.

Remember all the pain
Times when I would cry
When I wished it to be over
Wishing I could die.

My childhood days are blackened
And forever they will be
For that monster tore apart my life
When he chose to abuse me.

**NOT TRUE. I was given the title.**