Parents bring you into the world

They raise you with love

Give you everything in the world

Make you happy at all times

Until 19 years later

One of them has been missing for days

He missed christmas with you for no good reason

And then eventually

The other sits you and your sister down

She says” Your father and i, are no longer husband and wife”

You try to process the new info

And she continues to say “Any questions?”

You look and your 10 years old sister

Her face expressionless

What are you hoping to get from her?

And then you realise

What this is going to do to her

To you

You realize you both have been betrayed

Stabbed

And 3 years later the wound is still ever so fresh

Still hurts the same

You are 22 and yet you have decided

You will never get married

You don’t want to be like your parents

That is not the only thing you have decided

You have also made up your mind

Not to ever ever have children

You don’t want to do to them what your parents did to you

You know people will say ‘but you dont have to be like them’

‘You can be a better parent to your own children’

But what if it runs in the family DNA

What if i become the mean parent?