Payback!

It was your mother’s tears

That burst the dam
Of hidden bitter secrets
Surrounding you
It was the wild fear
In your fathers eyes
That alerted you to the power you held.

Heart beating loud
Painful inside you

The monster,
Born unknown to you
Bubbling under the surface
Of your soul
Waits, biding its time
Before rising from its grave
Buried alive for too long
Every fist you’d ever tasted
Showered by them upon you
Returned once, twice,
Ten times
Till anger flowed a river
From your heart
Mixing their blood
Their tears
Their fears

You stop, you look
The monster lies calm within you