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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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