Brought up in a house of HATRED

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Slamming doors, banging plates.
Swearing words, screaming cries.
Trapped in these four walls,
full of rage, full of agony.
Brought up in a house of hatred,
too far from the embrace of love...


And you tell me,"She hates YOU!" ?
So I must back off you say?
So I must leave just like that, you say?
So this won't do any good, you say?
Do you think that it would be enough,
when I have living under hatred since I was a kid?

Pulling hairs, dragging down the stairs.
Kicking and punching wherever in reach.
The screams of pain, cries of anger.
The rage in their fathers' eyes.
The pain in their mothers' face.
The wailing kids just a mere audience...

And you tell me,"She hates YOU!" ?
So I must back off you say?
So I must leave just like that, you say?
So this won't do any good, you say?
Do you think that would shut me out,
when I've been kept in the shadow since I was 1?

When I was always the 'witness' kid,
brought up under the shadow of agony and rage,
you showed up like the only gleam of hope.
You came in like a pillar of love I could lean on,
like a decoder in my confusing mysterious world,
like a flickering flame ad-mist the darkness...

And you tell me you are to leave just as you'd come in,
handing over the noose back to me,
strangling all the hope, all the lights?
Then, feel free to fly away, stranger!
For I'd still be fine even when I know
someone outside these walls also has a heart full of hatred for me...

Because I was brought up in a house of hatred...



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