There Out There. Poem by Terry Collett

There out there
they crowd the streets
and alleys and malls
and buses and trains,

she wanted no part of it
any more wanted to be away
from the rush and push
and shove from behind
and in front and and above,

she lies on her bed
hears the hum of traffic
the song of birds
the echo of chatter
on things that do not matter,

she muses on her plight
of that dark day
this dull night,

her father captured
in the claws of cancer
her mother unstable
unable to cope
hanged herself
behind a door
without rope,

her partner
misunderstood her
thought her weak
bullied her night and day
until just now
with her father's gun
she blew him away.