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Excuses

By: RoxieO1990
folder Poetry › Free Verse
Rating: Adult ++
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Excuses (A poem)

A long pull from the shorten cigarette
A look across the room, eyes have met

The fridge long been emptied of its booze
No mater course of action, result will lose

Empty containers litter the small room
Shadows on the wall depict my doom

Though I know not yet I’ve done
I know that pain is soon to come

Same as last I’d seen your fists
Amount of times, I cannot list

Though I trust you, though I love you
I cannot see how this is due

Long sense past, have made excuses
Pitiful lies about the bruises

No longer will it be me
Across the room that you see

For I am not the same girl you knew back then
The same loving eyes looking at you back when

Back when things were so simple
For now a bruise covers that dimple

On the face that used to smile
Not seen that girl for a while

Though days will pass without raised hands
From the man who makes many demands

One night after drinks he will return
Another mark on my arm, burned

Until that night all I can think
Is at your screams not to blink

For showing fear would be a mistake
Yet courage is one hard to fake

Someday you will learn, someday you will see
What your actions have done to me

Until that day I will wait
Pray it doesn’t come too late

For because I trust you, because I love you
I chose to excuse the things you do