LOVE CHILD

LOVE CHILD

See - In this oven,
a love - child.
Outside,
embers scar,
Mama’s heartbreak
PaPa’s dish rag

See - a knife
cuts the cord,
slowly kills a child

See - Mama’s a
milking machine -
and Papa’s
knuckle’s raw

Anger built
these walls,
bruised blood
traveling through
a Child’s heart

See, carved on
skin, red embers -
time after time
a twisted mind -

his children live on
yesterdays bread
inside flea
infested shack,
no shirt
on their back

See - Mama
lost a child,
who sucked its’
thumb

See – Mama
told us no one
asked to abort
a parent -

PaPa said,
“Sweep yesterdays
dirt, across the floor”

Nancy Duci Denofio
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