Written in response to The Daily Post Challenge

Daily Prompt: Childhood Revisited

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Dirty Memories

Chubby little fingers grip a wooden banister

He leads her toward a strange basement

She is scared

And for good reason

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They reach the bottom and he takes her aside

This is where it happens

Again

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Her young mind can’t wrap itself around this

And for good reason

No three-year-old should understand this

But she will one day

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He finishes

And leads her back upstairs

She does what she is told

She follows

He is her dad, after all

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He takes her to the pony rides on the way home

This will wash the dirty memories away

That’s what he thinks, at least

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But he is wrong

I will always have the dirty memories

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