Co-parenting with her rapist - v3

Her nightmare unending, each word triggering,
his smirk, his facial expressions a dagger,
her constant pain, PTSD, violence remembered,
co-parenting with her rapist.
 
Afraid of the father of her unwanted child,
but bound to him by law, process, procedures,
mandated by the state, the oppressor,
trying to remain the friendly parent.
 
Knowing all too well his manipulation,
the law’s bias, the pushing, being backed into a corner,
seeking only to love, to raise her children
behind her tears, her brave face.
 
Confined within the strictures, the structure, the laws,
forced to be bound at the hip, co-parenting,
with the Beast at the other table,
his anger which she hates.

 

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edited May 12, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist-v3.html

edited May 11, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist-v2.html

May 11, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist.html

edited May 11, 2022

Cries of the battered woman – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/cries-of-battered-woman-v4.html

edited September 9, 2015

Cries of the battered woman – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/cries-of-battered-woman-v3_9.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/cries-of-battered-woman-v3.html

(editing version 2)

Edited November 25, 2012

Cries of the battered woman – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/cries-of-battered-woman-v2.html

November 17, 2011

Cries of the battered woman

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/cries-of-battered-woman.html

 

 

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