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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Outburst

You howl
to strains of Beauty and the Beast
sit perched dead
center of the couch
Grabbing the books
Clawing at the pages like it’s their fault
Pretending to read
to get me to leave
You alone
Your arm
newly bruised and torn by
your own teeth
something inside
or something outside
a teenage body
that doesn’t understand
Ben is scared
hiding in the other room
Nothing I say can
ever make it right

posted at 4:07 pm 10 comments

10 comments

🙁 Bad day, huh? ((hug))

— added by ASDmomNC on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 6:08 pm

You know it.thanks.

— added by Susan Senator on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 6:15 pm

Full spectrum of emotions. Hearing that, Woman.

— added by mrs. gilb on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 6:40 pm

sounds tough, sending my blessings across states…

— added by susan on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm

http://www.generationrescue.org/

— added by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 9:34 pm

*hugs*
The bad days like the one it sounds like you’re having make the good ones a million times better.
Hang in there! (Not that you need the reminder.)

— added by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 12:27 am

When it’s down it’s got no place to go but up…I wish I could make it all better for you…and Ben.

— added by Candy on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 9:00 am

{hugs} Sorry you had a bad day. Did it feel a little better to express it so eloquently? Good thoughts coming to you from Canada.

— added by mumkeepingsane on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 9:03 am

i echo momkeepingsane. you expressed that so beautifully.

— added by kyra on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 10:40 am

*hug*

— added by Julia on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 8:52 pm