Domestic

My mother used to crowd me
    and my little sister and my little brother
into the living room when she was planning to fight him

I was scared of my father as a child
But as I grew up,
These instances where my mother
would crowd my father's space
    yelling and crying and threatening
would become the reasons I'd skip family dinners

And for a three-year-span in early-pubescence
    was why my mother
    was the only person
who could make me cry.