Ashtray
A cigarette dangled from his lips
as he entered the room.
His brooding scowl
scared her into immediate silence.
She knew tip-toeing carefully
around his mood
was the least perilous path.
Must try avoiding the virulent violence
hovering on the horizon.
Anything,
any minuscule misstep
would be a mistake.
She stared at her feet.
Quietly waiting.
He slapped her
with meeting the floor force.
Straddled her prone body,
smirked and ground his cigarette
into her swelling cheek.
Her scream softened
into a whimper.
She wiped away the blistering ash.
About this poem
A poem about a memory I had of me watching my older sister being abused. I was around 12 years old.
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Submitted by nelmsludwig on October 30, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGDHIJKLIMNEOPQMR |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 104 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
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