I remember

Remember when you   
Showed my mother that knife   
I do, it was only a pocket knife   
I don't think you seen me but I was there   
I remember  you telling mom that you would kill her if we were there when you got back home  
 
I remember she was scared and she knew you would kill us   
So We fled from you that day  
We Walked around aimlessly for days   
 
I remember on one night  my brother being so tired   
He sat on a pile of red ants   
I thought it was funny   
Even though he peed in his pants   
 
I was 6 or 7   
When you did this to us we   
Had no were to go no one to trust   
I remember one night we  slept outside the police station   
They really didn't help us, they said they would have to separate us and they asked for your name.
That was a no no mom wouldn't give you any blame  

that night I  remember my sisters tears   
My mother with all her fears   
My brother asleep   
Me looking at the pretty water fountain Wondering if I could   
Swim in it.. If it was just knee deep  
 
I remember going home eventually we had to   
We hid when we seen your headlights   
 
You came in looked for my mom   
You did nothing but say   
Where's my food I'm hungry   
What you standing there for talking to yourself   
Get up women poor me my drink   
 
 
That's it, it was over like it never began   
 
But I'll never forget them nights   
Sleeping on the cold streets with   
My mother and siblings   
Wondering what we would eat   
 
While you where home drinking away   
Not giving a fuck if we lived or died   
You just always wanted us dead by your hands or a strangers   
Either way it was done   
You wouldn't have to worry anymore about your daughters, wife or your beautiful son