Let Kids Smile
They tell us from the time children are born they need all the love they can get.
Then tell me why there is so much abuse and knowone has done anything yet.
I lost my dad at the age of three never knowing why this happened to me.
His love and his touch I never got to know, but I know he loved me because my
mom told me so.
From that day foward I knew my life would change, I thought that love I longed for
would never be the same.
By age seven my Mom was to re-marry and little did I know that my life would be
so scary.
I remembered time after time crying and begging "Dad please don' t hit our
mother". I remember the police coming to our house and trying to comfort me
and my brother.
Time after time I thought things would always get better.
Insted each time seemed to be worst.
Our lives were turned upside down and being the oldest my sisters and brothers
safety was always first.
I left home when I was seventeen,knowing I couldn't live like this anymore,and
what made it worst was looking back and seeing my brothers and sisters face
as I walked out the door.
I would like to say this made me a stronger person, but I know its not so.
Its ruined my life and angered me in ways know one will ever know.
Now I know how important it is to be loved as a child,and never have to indure
what we went through, because all kids should do is smile.
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