My mother was crying in a leap on the floor
My father had a knife as he stood by the door
As I walk slowly from upstairs
Its as if they don't even care
...
Read full text
First line? Leap on the floor? Or heap on the floor? Leaping is jumping, and heap is a pile or a mass. I am not trying to edit your work, but if it is not what you meant, then I hope you don't mind me pointing it out? :) Deborah Cromer
very very traumatic....painful.....had a brush with lucifer there what can one say....except cringe in the horror of the moment.. kudos...maggi one for the courage to go ahaead and say it doubly for putting it so well in a great poem iv been at poetry 2.5 decades and...never....ever been touched in so horrible a manner... you write very well and have an obvious gift of words if not worlds cheers and ten