A Life

A child comes home
to find pain again

A brother crying
one eye bruised
cut on the arm

I ask
where's mom

I get nothing
Again I ask
nothing again

take a walk through
there she is on the floor of the bath room
drowning in a pool of blood

blood stained clothes
blood stained floor

A scream
Her name called
A call for help

no one comes
to late
she's gone

looking for a baby girl
not there

A yell
where is she

A phone call
help being begged for

they say
we're coming
please calm down

A mother dead
A brother hurt
A sister missing

Baby found
mother buried
a pain-filled brother

now left to care for everyone
to take care of food
the bills
caring for it all

then I wake up
just a dream
and I shudder