Parental Nightmares

for skipping school until I was interrupted by a coughing fit If only she'd gone to school like she

should've, she wouldn't be stuck in the house fire with me My teenage daughter's

hated me for abandoneding them for my new husband If they new he wanted them instead would they

forgive me? I laughed as my brother fell off of his bike into the road and scrapped

his leg Only when I saw the bone did the smile leave my face When the doctors

told me my son is special needs I didn't listen to them. Now as he chases

his other sister across the house with a bloody knife I realized why they wanted to put him

in a behavioral home. My biggest fear was always being buried alive so