Fractured Family (A Poem by Ashlyn Hayes)

Meet the characters:

The Teen with too much courage and not enough sense,

She's the main character; the story is told from her point of view.

She's the one the reader roots for to succeed, and the one

That they groan at what her temper leads her to.

The Daughter with not enough courage and too much sense,

Who is never willing to speak what is in her heart.

She's the one that they silently love,

The one anyone would admire from the start.

The Sister who hides behind her screen,

Raised without a guiding hand,

She doesn't want to see the truth,

And never wants to take a stand. 

There's the Father, tall and strong,

Yet too afraid of repeating his own father's example,

To leave an abusive relationship.

Too late, but he never quite had a proper sample.

There's the Mother, kind-hearted but quite insane,

Driven by fear she cannot tame,

Her only crime was caring too much,

But she is despised just the same. 

And now the characters have been met,

The prologue is finally done.

The reader bites a nail or two,

And the story has begun.

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