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 Jul 2015 Apollyon
Evie Hammond
Are you sorry for things you've done?
For the violent attacks on your little son?
"It'll make you a man" that's what you said
As you kicked him and beat him around the head?
Or do you still think that it's ok
To treat your family that way?
More secrets hidden over years gone by?
Will you truly repent before you die?
Well, forgiveness to you isn't mine to give
After all your crimes do you really want to live
With the consequences of what you've done?
You blame it on trauma from carrying a gun?
But you beat your wife and you beat your kid
There's just no excuse for what you did
You hide behind your public face
Little man, you're a disgrace
You thought that this was buried in the past
But karma's a ***** and she's catching you fast
For the people you pretend to have been your brothers
Here's the kicker pal, some of us are mothers
Here comes the reckoning for what you've done
For the torture you visited upon your son
So don't blame the job for what you did
Newsflash - a warrior doesn't hit kids!
Abusers hide behind all kinds of excuses for their violence but there's really no excuse. Applies equally to men and women. Apologies to anyone this may resonate with a little too much
 Jul 2015 Apollyon
Evie Hammond
I love our multi coloured rainbow street
Where many tongues and hues and flavours co-exist
Where those that could not marry once before now can, and thrive
I find solace here amongst these dispossessed
Belonging and acceptance
Some would say ghetto
I say home
A tribute to the place I live - a wonderful loving muti cultural street within a very traditional old fashioned rural community.
 Jul 2015 Apollyon
Sherry Asbury
You grabbed my nose with your fingers,
the way adults tease children with the game.

But you were not playing games - were you?

You knew a hundred ways to inflict pain
without leaving bruises - with no visible
proof of your abuse.

There was the time you knuckle-knocked
me in the thigh - I could not walk for a week.

You did it because you loved me, you said,
to help me learn not to be so stupid and aggravating.

Sure would have been nice if you had not
loved me quite so much.
I was beaten and abused for ten years.  I loved my husband and wanted to pull him up - instead - he pulled me down into his sewer.
Watch who you are drawn to...
 Jul 2015 Apollyon
betterdays
his fist clenched
his mind benched
her eyes black
her jaw slack
and bleeding

her blood red
him out of his head
the child hiding,
crying....inside dying

violence never asks
never is the answer
for the victims
it is slow death
for society a cancer
domestic violence......
 Jul 2015 Apollyon
Evie Hammond
A real man doesn't beat his wife and son
I wouldn't share a trench with you, you'd run
You call yourself a soldier but, pal, that isn't so
You're nothing but a coward, through and through
A short piece about an archetypal abuser - who pretends to be noble
 Jul 2015 Apollyon
Evie Hammond
In Iserlohn so far away
But not so long ago
Not long enough to be forgot
By those of us who know
Now time has passed
And things have changed
The playing field's all level
The beaten child is all grown up
It's time to face the devil
For Abbadon is on the way
To give a Revelation
****** was a corporal too
Prepare for your damnation
Written for a friend, well client actually, with a troublesome past.

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