SOCCER MOM

An ambulances drove me to the hospital

My visitor a cop

I called for help

all sorts of questions

about what happened

before I dialed 911

what was going on

what was the fun

I told him the truth

I was being seduced

I told him what I had done

and how you tried to kill me

Your hands around my throat

until it looked like the fuzzy

I got to that point of darkness

When the fists came barreling down

I don’t know why you stopped

I told him all of this

I told him I came after you

that you grabbed my wrists

so he took me away

we made a pitstop first

to the domestic violence clinic room

she stripped me down

took pictures of my shame

I was so going to jail that night

8 o’clock in the morning

we pulled into fourth street jail

thank God I knew someone

you don’t want to be with general population

Isolation 12 hours I sat

Peanut butter and an orange

I didn’t shake I didn’t scream

I just sat there

replaying the scene

I called 911

You tried to kill me

The ambulance drove away

You walked back in the house

You were in on it that night

12 hours in isolation

Not one tear did cry

I just sat there in silence

We never loved each other

I was just playing my role

soccer mom with a career

Wife and housekeeper

I’ll sit here and wait

You are free to run

they started taking the women

in the room next to me

they were taking them out

they didn’t come by to get me

That’s when I started to shout

open up I’m a soccer mom

This isn’t right

I don’t belong