No Displays Of Affection

Once upon a once bright day,

A beautiful baby was brought to life.

Spring flowers bloomed in spectacular shades,

As a couple loved a perfect boy.

Once upon a time turning grey,

A bastard child was threatened with a knife.

No one came to the boys aid, 

As he became his step moms toy.

Now the the days have turned to black, 

She turns an innocent child's world to a nightmare.

No one believed the stories, 

Her lies overshadowed the truth.

After a beating he grabs a pack,

Affection had become heart-breakingly rare. 

The cops picked him up, she faced inquiries, 

It was blamed on the imagination of the youth. 

From one home to another, 

A boy was never believed.

She isolated him in his family's eyes, creating a wedge until...

Finally one day the state made the abuse stop.

Taken from family and given to a new mother,

His grief was mixed with relief.

A fifteen year old boy comes home from school to news that makes him ill:

His now dead mother was his infinite teardrop.

The grief was severe and the pain never ended.

Eleven years later and he missed her every day,

The pain manifests into strange things

That one could never dream to see.

Everything needed to be defended, 

Pain that he couldn't ever describe to say.

His body now hosts a pair of wings, 

He finds a woman who holds him when he's brought to his knees.

Because of his past he knows some pain, 

The Army was his way to get away.

It brought him to a woman he knew she would have adored, 

She knows his scars and becomes his stability.

She shows him how to dance in the rain, 

That he's far from just a stray.

And with her his love and life soared. 

Her belief in him finally brought him tranquility.