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Compulsion
December 17, 2015
Mama.
Daddy.
She hadn't smiled in years.
He hadn't laughed in years.
Food.
Money.
Care.
Money.
Pain, crudeness, no escape.
A burden, a prisoner trapped
between the walls
crumbling and shattering
from the abhorrent
deafening yellings.
Chained, restricted
of freedom
freedom from making my own choices.
Abuse, threats.
Loved by force
not
choice
if there is.
© Alicia R., Marblehead, MA
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