Seeds of Cruelty

,~ The man who uses hand to punish will suffer harsher blows,
  ...the one who strikes a child should be put inside a cage.~'

                                ~o~

Alcohol and chemicals dement and warp the mind,
skewing one's perceptions by twisting them in lies.
Spinning up some mystical, imagined realm within,
wet brains swamped with toxic thoughts make some feel like a king.

Too late for men to care for those small hearts that now are crushed,
Fermented eyes are blind and will not see the lives they touched.
Emotions frozen in a glacier won't melt fast enough.

For when these men have charge of children they may feel
a hammer-fist can cure a kid who used to rob and steal.
This wanton pirate is the dad who wanders toxic seas
seeking out some drunken captain lost in his disease.

And he's the who's sneaking under darkness veil unseen,
holding that big butcher knife awaiting captain's sleep,
he slips in and slits his throat, blade is buried deep.

A coward who was never more than what he is right now
and with family always there he can stay drunk and loud.

A sovereign king of his domain so full of self and proud,
manipulates each crisis so one "does" need him around.
Ruling house with martial law none dare to disavow.

Bashing heads of kids around and tossing them like dolls,
killing pets to threaten those who dare cross him at all.
Reminding each and everyone they're at his beck and call.

This rage in men can stew and fester, brewing up a storm,
sending them to madness, then they'll need some deep reform.
if not treated...victims die, their lives and hearts are torn.
kids now suffer from disease they somehow got when born.

So if one ever wonders where such utter cruelness stems...
I'd say it's in the minds and lack of treatment of these men
psychotics can refuse whatever help is offered them.

Some will say our constitution grants the right to make a choice,
but after kids and pets get slaughtered they don't have a voice...

                                        ~o~