A Child in Fear

A Child in Fear


I looked into his eyes I saw such fear,

The fire within my heart a crimson fire,

He backed up to the wall no way to flee,

Submitting to my will he faced his doom.

And I enraged began to rant and rave,

To set him straight; correct the err he’d made,

But, seeing him defenseless sitting there,

Not knowing what his fate would be today.

My heart was flooded with such awful guilt,

That I could put a child into this state,

And make him fear his father in this way.

That day I changed the way that I would live,

And love this child for all that he would be,

This loving child a soul of God was he,

True consequences paved a change of heart.

A softened voice now spoke to child below,

And raised him up I knelt to hug him close,

A tenderness between a father; child,

With loving care to each I must bestow.



Peter Lowell Paulson

October 18, 2010