The Legacy of a Peter, Peter Pumpkin Man

Words from our own real life pain the givers are different, but the victims are always the same…
Now my Son it is your turn to live the life my Father passed on, it is painful but turn off your emotions and you’ll be okay this is what you become from living a life of a Peter, Peter Pumpkin man
For I shall teach you all the words that I have learned, I am a coward even though we know what is right and what is wrong
Oh! Please Father, I don’t want to grow up never knowing the true meaning of love so please stop the pain of being a Peter, Peter Pumpkin man
Knowing the destruction of my Fathers wrong, teaching his Son this is our family legacy I’ll teach you the life my Father lived and passed it own into mine now it your turn to live my own hell
Peter, Peter Pumpkin man I’ll sneak into your life my deception is to fool you: all I desire is to get hold of your soul and take away the life that lives within you
I am camouflaged and you’ll never know who I could be for I come in many forms sometimes there are no tell, tell signs until I come home the doors are closed and the lights come on
I meet this man and you would never have known that he lived a life that damaged his soul with a life with his Father who taught him the legacy of the Peter, Peter Pumpkin man
Unwilling to go against the cycle he became the man who stole his childhood and kept him from being a better man because of you I am now living the life of a Peter, Peter Pumpkin man
Behind closed doors I am brave and prey on your emotions as I verbally defeat you until your soul is bruised and the life you breathe has left your soul lifeless
Breaking the cycle is up to you but our family legacy has been passed down for years of three generations, Son be the stronger man and save your soul; run from the pain and save your soul
Know that love is never supposed to hurt, when it makes your Mother cry that is why she left me alone in the pain my Father passed onto me
For I was the Son who left my Father behind, I am a bigger man I refuse to live the life of a Peter, Peter Pumpkin man
For the love of a Mother is stronger and the bond is unbreakable than the legacy of my Fathers life

By Judy Barnes-Snyder
Published: 9/3/2005
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