Brave Women 2 - Rosie Batty Poem by Paul Warren

What makes pure evil I wonder about
For a father to kill a son in a shocking bout
To live through the violence of a domestic kind
Is pure hell and hard for the right for you to find
What did he think on that terrible day
To go to cricket and bash his son's life away

What terrible news to give to a loving mother one
To take from her her most precious loving only son
Although he then took his own faded life
How could you look to forgive him for this unending strife?
So she picked up the pieces of a shattered dream
And told the world about it and what it did mean

She campaigns now for those who haven't a voice
Who have stayed in abusive relationships with lesser choice
Than to stay there and take it from evil people
And show the world what should be our mettle
As Australian of the year she strongly stands proud
And say what needs to be said to all out loud

Australia stands for all people not to live in fear
And have domestic violence from now on disappear!

© Paul Warren Poetry