i remember seeing a woman pregnant

i remember seeing her baby father drunk and high

i remember seeing them arguing over trust

i remember as myself from a boy to a man

i remember him and his fists

my heart pounds

in awe

i remember yelling silently, stop

i remember her son jumping in front of his mother

i remember her son telling his stepdad, touch her again and it's a wrap

trying to protect her life

i remember the next day

i remember seeing her son bruised and lacerated

i remember her son telling me

my stepdad raped my mom because she said no to have sex with him

i remember him telling me his disbelief, his rage

i remember him saying he found a glock in the closet and shot him in his head

i remember the time when the cops locked her son

away from prison to another prison

he'll lay in bed remembering the scars left behind

the remembrance of death in his soul

i remember the mom's cries

i remember my tears

seeing him go away and never coming back