Abuse Fragments Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

What lies behind faces of man?
Is there ever any truth emitted from their lips?
Staining everyone else's ears with their deceit and hard-kept
secrets.
Preying on defenseless children and women to feel how powerful
they are - but why?
There is no sense in what they do, yet never once do they stop
to think, just what it is they're doing.
Cutting the lives of many into fragmented pieces, hurting and
maiming their very self-worthiness.
How can a woman raise a family normally after having been put
through hell herself from domestic violence?
And the children who can never reconcile what has been done
to them - how will they ever mature or have normal lives?
It is a horrible crime and men who are supposedly human, are
doing and performing these animal-like deeds and are enjoying
them.
Purposeful acts of violence turned against the hope and dreams
of our future world.