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Terry Collett
Poems
Mar 2015
THERE IS LIGHT.
There is light
Ingrid sees
through curtains
of her room
as she lays
in her bed
she hears rows
raised voices
her father
bellowing
her brother
answering
her mother
crying out
Ingrid bites
at her lip
what's up now?
She wonders
sitting up
anxiously
her brother
shouting back
her father
barking words
she gets up
out of bed
listens out
at the door
of her room
don't go Tom
please don't go
her mother
pleads loudly
to her son
a door slams
then silence
whimpering
is then heard
her mother
in the hall
her father
swearing loud
which echo
in Ingrid's
ears and mind
she creeps back
to her bed
snuggles down
like a mole
under brown
thick blankets
hopes to God
her father
won't come in
taking it out
on young she
his daughter
but she knows
usually
that he does
she just waits
laying there
in her bed
for the harsh
bitter hurtful
bee-like buzz.
A GIRL IN LONDON IN 1950S.
Written by
Terry Collett
Sussex, England
(Sussex, England)
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