A Confession

It must have been the effects of the beer For he told me something I ought not to hear Something that few men wish to brag about But he was drunk and he let it slip out. That he often thumped his ex wife around And he often even kicked her on the ground With him she must have had a rotten life And not surprising she is his ex wife. You'd swear that butter would not melt in his mouth As he does not seem in any way uncouth And he is one with a Uni degree Yet there's more to People than the eye can see. I am not one to act on his defence But he also told me something that made sense That he often watched his mum beat by his dad A better role model he might have had. I haven't spoken to him since that night But now I see him as a lesser light Since he confessed that his ex wife he abused And at what he said I did not feel amused. In science and physics he has his degree Still he is not what I made him out to be The worst judge of other people must be me And I hope it is the last of him I see.