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Mommy and Daddy

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Mommy, Daddy, are you okay?
You haven't talked at all today.
Mommy, Daddy, can't you see?
You're really starting to hurt me.

All you do is scream and fight,
and I hear it all throughout the night.
Sometimes I think my eyes will run dry,
yet whenever I do, I just continue to cry.

"She doesn't care about any of this, she'll be fine by tomorrow!"
Daddy, you don't know how much your words fill me with sorrow.
"Can't you just be civilized?! Stop acting like a child, and apologize right now!"
Mommy, please don't make this worse, or I'll run outside and hide in the snow.

Mommy, Daddy, I wish you would just stop everything and be happy again.
I'm hiding under the blankets, writing these words down with a pen.
Mommy, Daddy, can't you see?
You're tearing my heart into one, two, three.

A piece for each of us, a piece of my heart,
the beating has stopped before it could start.
Two sections I wish I could install into both of you,
yet I'm afraid I have not yet found the proper glue.

"It isn't your fault, so don't let his words get to you."
I know, Mommy; they're not supposed to be true.
"In these moments, he just directs his anger at anything in his sight."
Daddy, please stop this man that isn't you; it's giving me a fright.

Mommy, Daddy, I want to help you both so much...
But all I can do is use my pillows as a protective crutch.
Mommy, Daddy, when was the last time you both kissed?
Don't you realize...that your love is greatly missed?
I know it's taboo to write stuff talking about your feelings and putting them on dA.

But you know what?

Last night was hell for me, and I'm going to vent.

Just because I'm as old as I am doesn't mean these fights will not affect me.

As long as I'm there to hear them, they always will.

Edit: ...my God. This made the front page.

And so many people are commenting with such amazing, inspirational, and amiable things.

Thank you. So much. To everyone.

I hope if anyone else is going through this as well, that you find luck in your situation.

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It's taboo to write about your feelings? What kind of bullshit is that?

You should feel free to express however you feel whenever you want to however you want to. I don't care what DA thinks about this.

Anyways, I don't know what you're going through and maybe I'll never understand what it's like, but... I believe you deserve to be happy, to feel love again. And I do hope that either you become strong enough to make it or someone rescues you from your nightmares.

No one should have to suffer like this... No one.