Abuse Victim

Old John for all of the wrong reasons his primary school going years cannot forget That he paid the price for not being the teacher's pet Of whilst he was being caned the bad memories from him not gone The smirk on the face of the classroom teacher's pet in him lives on Of his primary school teachers in the school room far away Old John does not have any nice things to say Though in his own words just one of the boys who knew of physical pain In the palms of the hands and the buttocks from the wooden cane The school teachers then looked up to by many in the town In Johns's words in the treatment of some of their pupils left humanity down And though long with the deceased of the town they do lay He only has bad memories of them today Old John in his early eighties did not have a great life In his mid twenties he lost Jane his beloved wife True love comes once in a lifetime that what he does say He still remembers her with sadness today On a warm Summer evening whilst swimming with friends in a river pool by the town Jane got into difficulties and she did drown Her friends tried to revive her but death was her fate That evening John was not with her he was working late She was carrying his child when she breathed her last And though her tragic death is in the distant past He still remembers with sadness the loss of his beautiful wife She was the one and only love of his life.