The Knot That Breaks The Branch

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Through these blind eyes

I

Change minds

Capture time

Evolve notions from portions

To portions being broken from something

Only to be told that I have came from nothing.

Well ain’t that something?

But something seems funny

Because ain’t isn’t a word

And good grammar can get you beat up and talked about

By people who never got a chance to see what life was

Really all about beyond their own four walls

Beyond letting him enter and break those walls down

So before she ever wears her crown

A baby can be found in all his glory through the horrifying story of her pain

You see he came but then he changed because nine months later this is not a game

And though he claims that he’s a 1,000 percent sure

Even Maury would tell that Man, You ARE the father.

Just like your ninety nine point nine-nine percent sure that your

Feet hurt, head is heavy, trying to scrap up

What was left from that empty make-up

That makes up

The face of

What was once a beautiful girl…

But now she’s a mother who likes cool nights

With sweet drinks

Smooth words

Spoken but never stirred

Because their emotions never occurred to

Speak from a heart that was never warmed

Because his father never learned

That when he did her in

He was then kicking THEM to the curb

And he never knew his worth

Because before he found his worth in the weight of it

He was pushing GOLD into another young maverick.

A lost pathological bipolar disorder emotionally abused and confused

Snap shot of a quick burst of frustration as man hood and woman hood

Was thought to be created.

But no one ever has time for a baby.

When its crying and just laying

Craving  for a love that was never formed

The pleasure of growing up without traces of gun smoke

And powder tracing his finger prints to crime scenes that link him to the death

Of a man who could have been his old,

Man don’t want to even think like that

Because he isn’t even in to all that.

He just wants to find the one with the skirt hiked up

And her chest hanging out.

He just wants the one who needs to feel and hear that she is beautiful

Because when their two bodies laid there somehow they felt equal.

Never knowing how equally disgusted they would be

When they found out that they started the fracture

In a now broken family tree.

Author's Note

Ignore the grammar problems please

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

I love this whole poem. It speaks loud and clear about situations that I have never lived through or know what it feels like but it allows me to picture it in my mind and understand more clearly. You have done a stunning job on this poem and opened people's eyes.

[Kat]

Wow, beautifully evocative. Grammar problems can be worked on, so not a worry.

Your words evoke images of self perpetuating dysfunctional families coming down through the years. Only when one makes a conscious decision to break the chain of events does this sort of thing stop. But only temporarily, as it will eventually begin again with new people and new dysfunctional families.

Only by educating ourselves, our families, our friends, and our neighbors and loving our children may we hope to turn the tide of unwanted children being left to try and figure out the world they've been abandoned into and keep them from in turn doing the same thing again.

[LadyCardiac]

thank you

[Mauricio Montoya]

love how this piece comes together it leaves me to ponder as I read.
Excellent write.

[LadyCardiac]

Thanks everyone. @ Poetic Beauty, I am thankful to say that I've never had to experience it first hand. i observe everything around me. I like to think of myself as a "walk in their shoes" writer.

[Rene Velez]

nice poem, love and consequence...life can add diffuculty when not properly prepared...

[Shante Payne]

I liked how you flipped between different aspects while staying on subject. Well written and meaningful.