Hit The Floor

You pushed her around, bruised and broke her,
She hits the ground, looks up with tears in her eyes,
And her past, she drinks it away, it's a blur,
Overloaded with your fake apologies and pathetic lies.

"Do you feel like a man?" She asks, face in the dirt,
Shaking and torn from all that you have done,
But she'll never admit to you that it actually hurts,
When you beat her in front of her little son.

And he hides under the table, watches from covered eyes -
His parents scream and fight, blood splatters on the ground,
And she hits the floor, screaming about your lies,
She knows where you've been from the evidence she's found.

But standing tall, shaking the dirt to the floor,
She swears you off, she won't take anymore,
And face down in the dirt, she turned and said:
"Hit the floor, and you'll see what it is I dread."

-Jenna Elphick
May 7, 2007