Written in response to The Daily Post Challenge
Daily Prompt: Childhood Revisited
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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