It was a Saturday morning

Bugs Bunny was on Television

I was eating a bowl of Rice  Krispies

I heard screaming in the kitchen

I walked

my sister and brother frozen in place

I looked

saw my Mother being beaten

by my father

Mother bleeding from her nose and mouth

Father standing over her in a

drunken rage

I froze

my older sister cried

he stopped

everything went back to normal

Mother said

" It's ok..."

I walked outside

My innocence died that day

I never cried until the day she died

I was only 8 years old

And I can recall it like it happened

yesterday.......