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Can you suggest an effective title for this piece on the cycle of abuse?

The boy could see the bottle getting closer

Below the empty holes within those eyes;

Fingers clenched around the ashed remains

Of the past, burned into skinless cries.

Sounds, like sugar in the blood, getting thicker,

Undissolved- seeing red, too hot to wrangle;

Branding iron fist, big mark on small jawline,

Fractured filaments in flashback, oddly angled.

Brittle bones gnashed, behind toothsome snarls,

Malnutrition, breathing dread in frothing spittle.

A dangled doll, broken; and now..... he says 'so sorry'

With an earnest grin that splits him down the middle.

The father dies, the damaged son carries on the curse,

Doing to his own son what his father had done worse.

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  • 5 years ago
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    Yes a title can be Fractured Fortunes.

    Gnarly Gnashed Bones.

    Play Time.

    Eyes without Holes.

    Eyeballs Crushed.

    Frothing Spittle Bedtime Story.

  • 5 years ago

    Touched by Fire

    Inheritance

    Inherit the wind

    Red Rage

    Rage of the gods

    Wicked Ways

    Wicked Inheritance

    Lost Childhood

    When I Was Young and EZ

    The Road Not Taken

    Subtle Revenge

    I'll Get Even With You

  • 5 years ago

    Broken Karma

    Crown Of Thorns

    Future Past

    Cyclical Defeat

  • 5 years ago

    The Familiar Nostalgic PainBody

  • 5 years ago

    Fractured Essence

  • 5 years ago

    The Curse

  • 5 years ago

    I can't really offer I title as I found the first paragraph confusing. But it is very powerful except for my slight confusion.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Tainted bliss.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Haven't thought too much about that

  • 5 years ago

    Circuit (play on words: circus, electrical circuit)

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