Deluded By Warped Idea Of Love 5.10.2008 Poem by Margaret Alice

Fritzl is his name, “protection” is the game
he played, simply cashing in on the lack of
respect for freedom that that our society
displays; worried about the life-style of his
rebellious daughter – when parental force
was out of the question to limit her freedom
at age eighteen, yet society is for discipline
and making decisions for others

He came up with a plan allowed him to play
god: Incarcerating his daughter to protect her
against the dangerous world outside, while
he himself, the world INSIDE, became power-
drunk and he gave in to his own inner devils;
the biggest danger, he discovered and
illustrated to us, is the devils we ALL harbor
within…

I cried when I read why the man locked
up his child, and the pathetic scene of
his underground family where he enjoyed
himself, marveling in the idea of a secret,
happy family – the sadness is too much,
the monster is a man deluded by a
warped idea of love…