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THE BROKEN CHILD - A POEM OF YOUTH SPORTS TRAGEDY
Submitted by Dr. Alan Goldberg on Thu, 08/13/2009 - Dr. Goldberg is a noted sports psychologist...
The following poem was written by Mike Hall about his heartbreaking experience as a 10 year old with his coach-father.
"Your voice was like thunder that rocked my room and my world.
It shook my soul and crushed my spirit.
Where it came from doesn't matter.
You were wrong...the first time and the last.
There are no excuses and I am not to blame.
I will not accept that it was just your way of letting off steam.
Dad, you were a volcano erupting near my heart.
It wasn't smoke and ash that I feared,
it was the suffocating thought that tortured my brain...
the thought that there was nothing, nothing in the world that I could do,
to make you love the broken child
that was too scared to speak and too hurt to cry."
It shook my soul and crushed my spirit.
Where it came from doesn't matter.
You were wrong...the first time and the last.
There are no excuses and I am not to blame.
I will not accept that it was just your way of letting off steam.
Dad, you were a volcano erupting near my heart.
It wasn't smoke and ash that I feared,
it was the suffocating thought that tortured my brain...
the thought that there was nothing, nothing in the world that I could do,
to make you love the broken child
that was too scared to speak and too hurt to cry."
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