In the dark of the night, a bolt of thunder made me sit up right
Thinking of the chaos outside, looking out my window
Stormy lights flashes of lighting, brought the tree asunder with quite a freighting
Startled at what I saw I held my sister close to me
A snapping of branches, a rapping, lapping of the rain on the window pain
The rain pounds the house
A sound not as load, a knocking, silence filled the room with no talking
My sister and I sat looking at each other not knowing what to do
Looking from one to the other, wishing for our mother
To be there to open the door, to find out more
Our Hearts pound as the rain does
I take my stand, studying my hand
Walking forward to the door, floor boards creek and groan
Down the dark hallway she holds my hand; her little fingers help me stand
Reaching forward my shaky hand the door only a short way away
The only sound is the rain
My hand cold on the door handle, the wood creeks and moans under my sandal
Pulling the door open a touch and looking out
The rain is pounding on the porch, the old molding deck scorched
Peering outside I pull my head in and shake the thought from my brain
It was just the rain pounding on the door
As I turn to go back to ponder, my sister grabs my hand and points yonder
I look out the window, I see eyes in the reflection, to my surprise their not mine
Stumbling, fumbling, falling, grabbing my sister my name she is calling
Picking her up I grab a bar and a torch
Our heads pound with the rain
Walking swiftly towards the door, I can't think about someone outside my window anymore
I thrust open the door to the pouring rain
Searching, looking, wondering where the eyes would go from my thundering
Till I looked into the night through the fog I saw him there
The rain is pounding on him
Holding her in my arms she came to a sort of calm, I released the door handle from my palm
Walking slowly toward the fog the rain pounded
Bar in hand child in the other slowly approaching, the figure crouching
His hood now drenched in soggy, saggy water was removed
The bar fell like the pounding rain
"She's mine, she's mine you cant have her like you had me" I screamed now knowing he
"He" who ruined everything and everyone she's all I had left
Running with her in my arms, his arms reach out for my neck, my life now in wreck
Slams me against the wall she runs and hides good girl I thought
There is rain in my eyes
He leans in close his eyes bore into me, his breath sickens, my hurt head but my mind quickens
Knowing a secret he does not I pull the wood off the siding for a face shot
Only dazed for a second, I run into the house till she beckoned
I run towards her she is all I have I grab her in my arms
Our hearts pound and rain falls from our eyes
She handed me an item, girl her age should never know how to use, we hear him slipping in his shoes
I pocket the life saver and push her behind me as he crashes there the window
Wet, shivering with rage, he came at me like he lost his mind; he was not thinking he was blind
I bring my life saver out to show him, he thinks it's a life ender, he does not think ill do it
His heart pounds like the rain
He looks at me like I wont do it, I think I know more then he does I will do it
Time seems to stop as I pull the trigger, he falls back
She runs to me and asks who he is, the man on the floor, he is dead and nothing more
He is nothing to us anymore he never was out father he killed his partner
Our father on the ground forever more
I held her in my arms for a while longer, always making me fonder
I ran from him so I wouldn't have to hurt him but he choose his fate
I moved his body from the floor, tossed him in the river nameless here forever more
Now only a memory we clean up to wash it from our minds
Our father nameless here forever more
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