Half past midnight
And you stormed the house again.
Bellowing, loud-mouth
The insanity starts again.
For what seemed like hours on end,
You hurled obscenities
And stripped me of my dignity.
I wanted to rest
I longed to be balanced
I contended with my own issues
But your liquor-fueled arsenic,
Your twisted, mangled rage-
You belted out terror
And made me into a nervous wreck.
Let me be, I cried.
But you gave me no rest.
Your anger was relentless-
I prayed you would leave at last.