• precious baby,
    little eyes;
    they would have been deep blue
    just like daddy’s…
    i always wanted a sister
    but i guess i’ll never know
    i think your hair would have been blond
    golden like the sand on
    the beach
    glistening sapphire ocean
    the same color of daddy’s calm eyes
    until daddy started cozying up to his
    buddy, Jack
    every evening his eyes shaded flat black
    cold as a nightmare
    dark as midnight
    Jack makes daddy hit mommy,
    smash her face into the table
    daddy made me tell him i love him
    but i don’t know if i do
    daddy left mommy bleeding on the floor
    and i screamed and screamed and screamed
    then you didn’t exist anymore, baby
    daddy says it was an accident
    it was, wasn’t it, baby?
    mommy slipped and fell and lost you,
    daddy didn’t slap her,
    throw her on the floor,
    hurt mommy…
    didn’t take that bottle and swig a sip of his
    pal Jack,
    ‘cus daddies don’t hurt mommies,
    right baby?