Signe Robertson

A Stranger's Child

A Stranger's Child, poem by Signe Robertson, 2008




It makes me sick
The way you act
As if you were right
And I were wrong

Yet I only live my life
You're just here to harm me
I could throw up
Because of you
Because of this ugliness I see

I cannot eat
The sweetest fruit
Will someday rot
Rot just like you

Like a pile of rotting corpses
That were once living children
Children just like yours
You would kill the child of a stranger
But you wouldn't harm your own

When they know what you have done
They just might kill themselves
To get away from you
Because being raised by a monster
Can cause a lot of harm

If you cannot protect
A stranger's child
Would you protect your children
From you?