MORNING COMES

A GIRL IN LONDON IN 1950S AND HER FEAR OF HER FATHER

Morning comes
the night's gone
Ingrid waits

and listens
there's music
her mother

is cooking
the breakfast
her father

is silent
or he's out
Ingrid heard

her mother's
moans last night
flesh on flesh

Ingrid gets
out of bed
and dresses

she hopes her
father's out
not sitting

in the lounge
in a mood
watching her

eating what
he tells her
is his food

or maybe
he'll bruise her
or hit her

as he does
her mother
as he did

in the night
she goes out
of her room

to the lounge
hoping she'll
be all right.

Author's Note

PICTURE BY BANKSY

Reviews

[Write Cat]

It is so sad.... One never knows how lucky one is..........

[Terry Collett]

Thank you.