Twelve next month, that preteen brink.<\/p>\n
I have a new step-daddy,<\/p>\n
a new baby sister too!<\/p>\n
Momma is so happy,<\/em> I think-<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 with everyone but you.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Says I must deserve the welt<\/p>\n from the tops of my feet to my<\/p>\n shoulders<\/p>\n she shrugs,<\/p>\n He wields a braided belt.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He says, “stand still or you’ll get more”.<\/p>\n The bruises are kept covered.<\/p>\n We never see Grandma anymore.<\/p>\n Uncles that doted on me,<\/p>\n removed to a distant shore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The new uncles are his brothers,<\/p>\n the “love” a different kind.<\/p>\n Pain, much deeper than my skin.<\/p>\n Locked in my bedroom – I scream- I beg- I holler-<\/p>\n she doesn’t even try to come in.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thirty years long past-<\/p>\n I scream, I beg, I holler.<\/p>\n Still, nightmare visits blast.<\/p>\n Please somebody wake me-<\/p>\n out of this forever, take me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By-gone, but not forgotten are<\/p>\n the terrors of<\/p>\n my life-<\/p>\n embarrassed and ashamed,<\/p>\n I can be nobodies wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twelve next month, that preteen brink. I have a new step-daddy, a new baby sister too! Momma is so happy, I think- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 with everyone but you. Says I must deserve the welt from the tops…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136,5],"tags":[1497,3437],"class_list":["post-49407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-broken","tag-dream-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59376,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49407\/revisions\/59376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}