The Boy

Here is my latest poem:

See the boy
He’s scared and scarred

The tears have dried
The pain subsided

But the memories
The memories will never go away

It wasn’t always so
There were pleasant times

But they don’t even up
The last ugly years

The blows fell hard
The negligence was even worse

Now the father is gone
And the boy is alone

He battles on
The fight now with himself