Insanity

and moving, i love this poem, the short lines really speak so much  ending in that one haunting word 'fall'.Lovely poem.

Thank you :)

and reminds me of one of my newer ones called "victim" except my father didn't fall.. in fact I confronted him a few years back about how he treated me and my brother and mom and he denied it all.. said the devil was messing with my mind.. people are so fucked up

I'm sorry to hear that happened to you :( Wish the world was a better place sometimes.

There is an honesty to this piece that rips at my heart. Your change from physical to mental to emotional violence shows the intensity of an already raw subject. Wonderful work!

Thank you :)

many underestimate the short poem. many short poems are much stronger than long ones especially this one it has much feeling. love it!

yeah the shorter ones seem to be the more powerful, thank you :D

this is the kind of 'dark' subject that really moves me - the unthinking black effects of emotional poison, passed from one human being to another, stain the conscience forever

(if short poems were bad that's put the haiku out of business straightaway - as *somebody* once said: brevity is the soul of wit)

thank you, i'm glad you liked it :)

I love how it describes the fall from reality into sanity. Very well written.

thank you :) I seem to find that the gap isn't as wide as we would like.