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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