Other Child

 


Passions run wild in loving designs
Unbridled pro creations, lasting awhile
Only after a seed is spawn does love leave
Lead to belief that happiness is abound materially
Factors in harsh realities lead to loss in drives
So another child is left to wonder why?

Why did daddy leave?  How come he left mommy?
She is always angry inside and thru her pain is embedded birthrights
Seeing a father try to compete from afar in far flung states of mind
Rationalizing that there can be no need outside of assigned support
Carrying no regrets because "the man" is making short on  his change
So visits are always marked in rants and raves, am I your child to blame?

As time passes into proof, hearts hardened beyond seeing truth
A child becomes an adult  as siblings also cope with being left behind
Postcards and visits are not nearly enough, so daddy payback with God We Trusts
News is heard from grapevines of more abandonment due to love being blind
So kids look for love on corners and dark dens glamorizing  fraternal ties
Paternal lines are taught in shared misery breeding cells for company prison sales

History repeats again and again, hoping to replace reckless abandon
No absolutes, so a few escape this resounding gavel that baffles many
Tragedy sadly visits the uninflected in startling wake up calls in the middle of Knights
As one bastard exercises pain by taking out his frustration on yet Another Child