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I'm Going to Delete You

By

Alice C. Bateman

I’m going to exorcise you

Remove you from my mind

Because you haven’t been here

And you’ve been far from kind

 

I’m going to delete you

Remove you from my thinking

Going to pour you down the drain

With the cold tea I’ve been drinking

 

I want to have a happy babe

She needs a happy Mommy

I can’t have you upsetting her

While she’s still in my tummy

 

How would you be if she should grow

Annoying, say age two

If she did something you didn’t like

Then what would you do?

 

Would you be cruel and heartless

Like you have been to me

Torment her with your silence

Why can’t God make you see

 

That you are now a Father

A blessed thing to be

But you have said to God Above

“I just want to be free”

 

Free to be alone in life?

Free to kill your child?

Free to see her go to strangers?

Free to make me wild?

 

But I won’t succumb to heartache

I’ll take it on the chin

Don’t think I’d be with anyone

Whose soul has proved so thin

 

Good-bye, my dear, it’s been quite strange

I’m happy that it’s done

I’ll do my part, and happily

To raise this girl or son

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