loving, caring father
protection from the world
constant pillar of strength
never crying, always trying
bias, proud, courageous
but the mask hides reality
the black pit of endful emotionless
painful spiritual hollowness
painful for the victim
not for the killer
does the child feel the water
gushing into life
as mother rids the world of it?
does the wife feel the fists
disecting fragile love
as husband rids body of drink?
does the daughter feel resentment
as father kills hope
having way, feinting ignorance?
if they felt, would they care?
would their love be less?
or only bruised and forgotten
cut off from society
faking
you miscontrue me as weak and brittle
but i'm just as strongwilled as i am little.
my cynical slander is marked with abandon,
my harsh tone, only a puppet with my hand in.
i speak before i think, quick witted as a fox
i say what i shouldn't from far outside the box
you think when you look at me,
"perverse and rude, that's him to a tee"
i have a razor tongue, sharp and red hot
i'll cut you, burn you, oblivious that you're distraught
although i'm vicious, and unkind as death,
i'm nice to some, if they're worth my breath.
don't you realize i'm playing defense
with the emotions of others, marked as minor expense?
i don't want to off