Caught In The Crossfire Poem by Sierra Spells

Mommy and daddy are fighting again.
Screaming and yelling inside of the den.
Oh how my heart aches deep inside.
I just want to run and hide.
A slap and then a scream.
Dear Lord! What does that mean?
Did daddy hurt mommy?
Is she alright?
The silence is giving me a bigger fright.
We were once a happy family,
So full of love and alive!
Now my childhood is spent just trying to survive.
In one night, everything had begun to change.
That one night, when daddy began acting strange.
The late nights out, the nights he would shout.
The look of rage and annoyance shone in his eyes,
As if mommy and I were troublesome flies.
At the time, I was too young to understand.
I could only watch and wait in anticipated horror as daddy raised his hand.
The questions rang through my small mind, Why is everything starting to unwind?
Daddy, who is this other woman and why can't I tell mommy?
Mommy, why are you sad?
Are you feeling the pain caused by dad?
What happened to the look of love you would show me with your eyes?
I'm only five and I want to die.
Ouch! I fell and scraped my knee.
Why do you glare and just walk past me?
You call me a burden even though I didn't wish to be born,
My mind and feelings are very torn.
They tell me I am hated and now I believe it to be so,
despite everything going up in flames, my heart is ice like snow.
My existence seems to have tripped a wire.
A wire that has caught me in...Crossfire.