The Former & Latter

      I.....

      I have married off a child

      Even when I knew that it wasn't right

      I let go of my only daughter

      And let havoc wreak amongst the remainder

      Foolish was I to let go of this child

      Who now felt that the safest place she could be

      Was her mother's womb

      Have I reduced my wife to just a womb

      Now my daughter wants to run away

      I married off my daughter

      That she might be happy

      I mortgaged her happiness

      The former meaning to cause death and

      The latter meaning I imprisoned her

      I mortgaged her life

      The former meaning to hold her in one place

      The latter meaning I have sentenced her..

      To a term she cannot bail on

      I have taken away my daughter's freedom to

      Express, to love, to smile, to be

      The former meaning to alienate her

      The latter meaning to silence her

      I have found no peace when I caused her life disarray

      She must have prayed good

      That all her enemies receive the same turmoil, that her heart weeps

      For she did not sow the seed so why should she reap the punishment alone

      I have left my daughter alone even though

      Her status is engaged

      The former meaning to kill and

      The latter achieving that goal

      I have mortgaged my only daughter

I want to publish a book, it will be a collective  of my work from the start of my journey at 8 years old til Summer 2015. Hold me to it ! 

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