A life of a battered child

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Hi, how are you?

Fine? I'm not.

Why? My father's here,

Soon, I'll be gone 

He comes home,

Drunk, screams at us and yells.

I know he doesn't like me,

It's quite easy to tell.

Mom? She's very nice when father's not around.

But when he is, she hardly makes a sound.

She's very terrified,

she told me to run and hide.

She then turns around and silently cries.

She often leaves me alone; I think we'll live like this until we die...

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