My name is Sarah.....
I am but three,
My eyes are swollen
I cannot see,
I must be stupid
I must be bad,
What else could have made
My daddy so mad?
I wish I were better
I wish I weren't ugly,
Then maybe my mommy
Would still want to hug me.
I can't speak at all
I can't do a wrong
Or else I'm locked up
All the day long.
When I awake I'm all alone
The house is dark
My folks aren't home
When my mommy does come
I'll try and be nice,
So maybe I'll get just
One whipping tonight.
Don't make a sound!
I just heard a car
My daddy is back
From Charlie's Bar.
I hear him curse
My name he calls
I press myself
Against the wall
I try and hide
From his evil eyes
I'm so afraid now
I'm starting to cry
He finds me weeping
He shouts ugly words,
He says its my fault
That he suffers at work.
He slaps me and hits me
And yells at me more,
I finally get free
And I run for the door.
He's already locked it
And I start to bawl,
He takes me and throws me
Against the hard wall.
I fall to the floor
With my bones nearly broken,
And my daddy continues
With more bad words spoken.
"I'm sorry!", I scream
But its now much too late
His face has been twisted
Into unimaginable hate
The hurt and the pain
Again and again
Oh please God, have mercy!
Oh please let it end!
And he finally stops
And heads for the door,
While I lay there motionless
Sprawled on the floor
My name is Sarah
And I am but three,
Tonight my daddy
Murdered me.
2006-10-26 07:52:54 · 35 answers · asked by Laura Pick 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
wow that i8s really sad.
i suffered from child abuse form my dad so i can sypathise with this poem, luckly i was saved by a social worker who realised what was going on in my home.
2006-10-26 07:56:45 · answer #1 · answered by welshwife 4 · 7⤊ 4⤋
I love to write poems. I have written several and have given several away to others to give to there spouses for Valentines day and so forth.
I have never read this poem before. The more I read, the more the tears welled in my eyes. Needless to say, I am an emotional person.
What bothers me the most is this sort of thing happens in real life.
Not just in one place but all over the world. Children suffer at the hands of an abuseful person. AND if they are not suffering because of those kind of people, they usually end of dead.
Oh Dr. Phil the other day, the woman kept her teenage daughter locked in a room to keep her safe so that she would not run away. It was a sad story.
I thank you for sharing this poem. I hope that others read it as well. It truly touched my heart because there is much truth it it.
2006-10-26 08:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by whenwhalesfly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a powerful poem and does the job it intended which is to raise awareness for child abuse - sadly abuse is happening somewhere in the world every minute of the day. When it doesnt happen to us or ours its all too easy to brush it under the carpet and this poem brings it to the fore which can can only be a good thing for the abused children. Nobody likes the reality of it - same as the cancer ad's or the heart disease ones but they are a fact of life. Its a very cleverly written verse.
Micheal b I think you have SERIOUS anger management issues you need to address - you could maybe find yourself being accused of being an abuser if you vent your anger on your kids like that - or maybe you'll never see your kids grow up fully because you give yourself a heart attack. Calm down man - no harm was meant in this.
2006-10-26 08:13:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had already received this in an e-mail before, after I read it I hugged by 3 yr old daughter and just realised how lucky my daughter is to have loving parents.
The poem does upset me but on the other hand it fills me with anger for who is caught abusing of young ones (I am not referring to the occasional slapping on the leg, butt or hand.....I am referring to beatings which end up in broken boans or severe bruises) should be trialed and made disabled through injection which paralyses his entire body (I am not joking). If a parent has a problem with alcohol he shouldn't exercise his frustration and total failure of life and beat young ones. If he is man enough this person should challenge another tough guy of the same age and spare the life of innocent children..... >:-((
2006-10-26 09:35:05 · answer #4 · answered by ville009 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is very upsetting, and yes it goes on day after day to some poor mite - but what I think adds to the pain is that it's getting worse and although people try to help it doesn't seem to do much good. I think society is going downhill fast, there is no harmony and community and standards anymore, just a get rich and we want what we want now society and we don't care about anyone else.
2006-10-27 00:21:05 · answer #5 · answered by barmyberni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes its sick that things like that happen in a supposedly good society i remember giving my two a slap on the back of the legs once then i read this in an email it broke my heart and made me feel like i had abused my two they where 9+6 at the time and right little tinkers but from then on i just put them to bed if they played me or their mum up you cant be right in the head to do that to little kids and people who do do it should face the full force of the law and never be allowed to hurt litttle children ever again
ps my two are 22+19 now and i love them as much now as i did then mind they still drive me mad but i never even think of hurting them they mean too much to both myself and their mum and are free spirits who love life and im proud of them both
2006-10-26 08:07:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have just gone all cold reading that. Isnt it a sad fact of life that these things do actually happen to innocent little children.
2006-10-27 04:57:34 · answer #7 · answered by dollybird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you wrote this about yourself, you poor thing. I had such a happy childhood I find it distressing that children can be treated in such a way. To write poetry about it is a release, a way of getting rid of the pain. It's a terrible poem, but for the writer, I hold nothing but sorrow.
2006-10-26 08:04:19 · answer #8 · answered by Val G 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I feel sorry for you having to put this on this page!!! we all know only too well what can happen behind closed doors, but do you really think this helps. I feel you must like writing this kind of thing because who would spend the time doing so.
2006-10-26 08:14:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
it is a sick poem,,you shouldn't have put it in here. we have young people that use this site and if adults are disturbed by this which anyone with a mind and heart is,,,,wonder how the young ones reading this feels especially if they're in that same situation...this is offending..if i were you I'd delete this question now,,,,,,
2006-10-26 09:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by ggmsixer 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To all the people who will over-react, and call you sick or twisted, they should remember that one child every week dies of abuse and violence at the hands of their parents in the UK.
Read the facts that the NSPCC publish regularly, and you'll see the scale of the problem that exists in the UK today in a so-called civilised society.
Your prose is mildly upsetting, but nowhere near as distressing as the reality of child abuse.
2006-10-26 08:00:23 · answer #11 · answered by Phish 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋