By No Means Am I Weak

I never wanted it to come to this. You forced this into my mind, my hand. So many wrongs, They needed corrected. It's one thing to lay your hands on my, But lay your hands on her, Harm her, You will go down in flames. By no means am I weak. I go to bed at ten, And I wake up at midnight, I hear mama cry, I hear a door slam. Mama runs into my room. "Baby, baby, you hide in the closet, okay? "Mama, what's wrong?" "Everything will be okay honey, I promise." I listened, And the next time I saw Mama, She was in a body bag - Yes, ten years old and I knew what a body bag was. I cried when the officer picked me up. But by no means am I weak. They sent me to Auntie's house. Auntie put me to bed, and later I heard her crying too. But no slam. I heard a knock a few hours later. More screams. He was here. Bastard. By no means am I weak. I tiptoed to Auntie's room. There was a water guy I wasn't allowed to touch in her drawer. I picked it up. Mine was green with an orange tip, but I left it at Mama's in my room. How long ago that seemed. Auntie's was black and heavy, Why so heavy? I remember, Mama would play dead when I shot water at her - Maybe bastard man would do the same. I took it to the living room, And I pointed it at bastard man. "Put 'em up!" "Kaylee, put that down sweetie." Auntie looked scared. By no means am I weak. I moved closer to bastard man, He backed up. Good. He should be scared. "Kaylee, don't shoot daddy, Daddy loved you." He said. Liar. Damn liar. "You hurt Mama!" I pulled the trigger, expecting a swoosh and a line of water. It was loud, and I fell down. Water guns don't do that. By no means am I weak. Bastard man fell down. Auntie screamed. He was bleeding. Auntie took the non-water gun, Then told me to go to my room. The officers talked to me, I got in trouble. I had to stay with a doctor for a while. She's nice though. She lets me talk a lot. Bastard man, you're dead, And I am glad. I'm 18 now, I've grown up with no mama. I work two jobs and I go to school full time, plus I take extra classes at the local college. I live by myself, and have since I was 16. You did this to me. to die! You did. Mama didn't want this for me. But by no means am I weak. mama didn't deserve