Mark's True Meaning Poem by Leslie Neiwert

A blue-purplish bruise
Marked its territory
Upon the woman
Who hid it from discovery.
An officer, just doing his job,
Went to speak to her
About what had happened.
Smiling she said it was a mistake
That she fell and hit her face,
Against the cupboard and then the door
Until she finally hit the floor.
“That’s all that happened, ” persuaded the mother
As the cop continued to hover
After he left she hid her face
With a pair of glasses she had to replace.
No one suspected the mark’s true meaning
As her husband watched,
Against the door he stood leaning.