Today I was taken back to a place and time

where darkness was dangerous yet seemed sublime

It was a place where my life was lived in sin

And while I laid by the pool, I suddenly saw him.

A man in levis wearing boots with steel toes,

When I saw him on the second floor, I froze.

He wore his red bandana and his harley vest.

His face was hard just like his chest.

He walked the walk that instilled fear

In anyone that was anywhere near.

I was back in that time and place

And the man I saw had a cold, hard face.

What happened that day was unexpected.

How little I knew how I would be affected

Now many years later,

I realize I had been infected!

Though his eyes did not look at me,

Terror pierced my heart because, you see . . .

This man had control over my life.

I knew who he was for I am his wife!

He knocked on someone’s door

then pushed his way inside

A few minutes past and my fear I did hide.

Suddenly there they were on the balcony,

Would he beat up that person,

for the whole world to see?

He grabbed him by the shirt and shoved him around

I expected to see him throw him down to the ground.

Almost over the rail,

that man’s body, he clutched!

My chest and throat got tight

as I stayed still and watched.