You Pay Now(Child Abuse) Poem by Tracy Rollings

I came home from my cousins one night
when I got on the porch, it didn't feel right.
Something told me, that this was the end
my key wouldn't work, you changed locks again.

As you looked through the window, you told me to leave
the words that you told me, I found them hard to believe.
You opened the door and put a gun in my face
said you would kill me, if I didn't leave your place.

Of all the years I knew you, I thought that would change
thoughts like that in my head was really kind of strange.
Through all the beating, that I got in the past ten years
I turned and walked away that night, with my eyes full of tears.

I find it hard to think of you, now that you are gone
if you are being punished then you did it on your own.
Pleasure you brought little of, pain you gave the most
so if your burning in hell now, I hope you roast.
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It's a sad thing to say, about a sorry old man
said you tried to raise me, the best you can.
but you have a long time, to try to explain
why you cause this child, all of that pain.