He had survived so much as a child.
Born just before the war to a crazy young scientist
And a beautiful heiress
Who died withing weeks of his birth
He did not want to forgive her for dying
But he also did not know how to love her husband
Instead, he had been raised by his uncle
and given a life by others to know
His life might have been with a happy couple
He traveled throughout as a navy kid
His girlfriend's family were immigrants
They were able to travel when others could not
He had been to Canada and Iceland
Cuba and Egypt
And then everyone came home from the war
They stooled everything they could
Those people from America
Really Germans who just took
What they wanted including others' lives
They arrived as if they had always been there
And would not leave
He had suffered life threatening
Childhood diseases
Had to have operations on his eyes
Been attacked as a child
Of the Manhattan project
Been held hostage
As the nephew of a pacific
Navy child whose life
Was worth nothing
And yet his family had come through
The Great Depression
Left them not rich
But with a string of filling stations
Gas and Oil
Was his one grandfathers
Inheritance to him
All he got was more work
On those gas stations
Instead of the oil rigs
And the CEO table politics
His mother's family had sold
Out the plantations
Even before the Civil war
And invested in the new product
While his father's family
Were the inventors of the gas engine
His grandfather was a designer
Of race cars and other
Automotores and bicycles
And later those flying things
No wonder his parents had gotten together
They had both been sent to England
To get them out of the Appalachia's
They were university educated
And still got married
And returned home to the old ways
Native Americans who had already
Arrived when the Brits arrived
It makes so many Germans
Angry to understand
They can't just say they were
There first when dealing with Indians
Meanwhile he had married the girl
who caused so much trouble
For everyone as a child
And then seemed to have grown up
Only to realize that she was never
Going to be normal
Her brain was damaged
Severely at some point
And now had cancer spreading
Throughout and she would not listen
To her parents about anything
Everyone thought he could
Endure a married life
And would be happy to have a wife
But it was hell to have her
Destroy everything
He had suffered in order
To gain as an adult
An orphan with two fathers
A woman refusing to give in
Should not have been allowed
But then he had fallen for her
As most still did without
Knowing her brain was wired
To destruction
He had even gotten to the point
Of agreeing to murder suicide
In order to get her to leave him alone
when he was working on an important
Project for the government
He was brilliant and skilled
Yet his family life was miserable
He did not know what to tell his children
One more time she had arranged
For a big show were others
Showed up for her to recall
Her childhood as the daughter
Of a war hero
In London where they gave big parties
For those who made it back
But had nowhere to go next
Thier own homes had been raided
While they were off defending
The world against Hitler and Mussolini
Others had arrived to steal their homes
Some people never know
What hit them
And those people were about
To Experience Demi
His wife's real daughter
Now known as Demi Moore
She always needed a different
Child to represent the family
All because her stepfather
Had introduced his mistress
And his son as the real
Relatives to the rich friends
Defrauding her mother
And her whom he sent to an institution
It was this reason they put up with her
Tantrums but not today
He was not going to see the wrong girl
Presented as his daughter
He took his two boys
And got in a small boat
To go back to shore
He was still working out
The problem his wife
Had presented
When a storm had hit them
He was not aware there was a storm
But his wife unknown to him
always made sure that
The weather services
Did not get through
To her group of people
She needed to be in control
At all times
And her family homes
Had a number of natural
Phenomena occur
Now she wanted to control
The weather around her
Therefore no one knew of the storm
About to hit them
A Hurricane the size of the Caribbean
His boat and boys
Were almost swallowed
Instead, he was sitting
Attempting to adjust the boat
And talked about the storm
To his boys so one day
They would know what to do
Her voice came out of nowhere
Daddy are we in the eye
Eye?
He looked up at the sky
It is blue and clear
But over there it is all
Icky and stormy
He looked around him
They were surrounded
By it!
A Hurricane had come out of nowhere
And they were in the Eye!
Then he realized she was not supposed
To be there
She threw me out
Again, she has another girl
When is she going to stop
Anyways, I decided not to swim
Back to land
But to sit in the boat
In case someone was going ashore
Mumble mumble
Who is sitting on me
Oh, look there is the other one
What are you doing here?
Pretending to be you
And she spanked me
Really really hard
Then she put me in the boat
But they used the other one
I am never going to do it
Again, be you!
She has someone else coming
And I am not to say anything
Is that what she does
When you show up all frustrated
And unable to talk?
Oh, she got both of us
The same night as the other one
He just says there for a moment
He had not thought of what she did
His daughter when his wife
Had to have her way
With the little joke
Of introducing the wrong girl
Now he had all four of his children
In a small boat
In the middle of a hurricane.
She found a tarp under the other
One and spread it over them
And a rope she handed to her father
He had strung it over the boat
Like a badly wrapped
Christmas gift
TO strap all of them into the one boat
While he laid there with his arms
Around the four of them
Staggered the two small ones
Lower around his legs
And the older ones
Around his shoulders
Laying there now
Looking up at the sky above
And waiting for nothing
He had given up on God
When he found out his father
Had worked on the bomb
That took out Japan
He knew no god would allow
That kind of destruction
And yet here he was floating
Through the dark in the eye
Of a storm so huge
He could not see its edges
He had survived Korea
As well with his men
Out on a walk through
The fog and the war
She knew her father
Did not understand
The mother had lost her mind
A long time ago
She was stealing other people
Chidlren and presenting them as her own
The problem was that those children
Did not know she was lying
Nor that their own parents
Were not aware of the harm
It was doing to them
They would spend the rest
Of their lives
Not knowing how to handle
The situation that she was the first born
and had to handle the burden
And a mother without a mind
And a father whose heart
Was failing everyday
She pulled another stunt on him
He lay there now with his open
And his heart stopped
She was massaging his chest
When her brother came awake
He saw her movement
And hit his father a few time
It worked,
Her father jerked
And began to breather again
Meanwhile,
They had gone through a storm
So bad she did not want to speak
About what she had felt
Like the Ark
Being tossed back and forth
Up and down
While the others held
On to the hope
That he knows what to do
She knew he had way
Of overriding nature
Here they were riding on top of something
Cruising through the waer
With a moter
They had picked up a boat
She told the others
And then it happened
The boat gave a great
Big heave and hove
Then it began to sink
It had ridden out the hurricane
But could not recover
Like a whale it was too injured
It fell back into the sea
That gave it life
And purpose
Another one for the grave of the sea
She screamed so loud
He rose from the grave
And woke in time
For them to be rescued
He knew to release the tarp
While keeping hold of the rope
The rope of life
He had been trained to scale mountains
And transverse caverns
Never let go of the rope
He had them all tied to it by now
He could see they had passed
Through the storm now
And hope was in sight
He was still struggling
With the boats oars
When they were spotted
From the shore
He had been rowing all night
While the boys were sick
And the girls quiet
They were brought
In by the fisherman
To the beach
He was so relieved
To touch the ground
With his toes
He made the phone call
And then the telegram
Until his father responded
And his mother-in-law
They were in France
Not Florida
She arrived as usual
In a mood
And pregnant again
Back in Florida
They would go out to the island
Where he could remember
Those days when his Faher
Was important
And now he was going to be aloud
To have a life
Another little girl
Walked up to him
Calling him daddy
Why don't I get to go
On trips to France with you
This was Maria
His former friend's niece
She was prettier than his daughter
Who was considered pretty
They had lost the little one
In a car accident
And the boys only visited them now
AS she went through treatments
But the older girl was always
Around in order to make their grandparents
Sure, they were getting the real story
It had been a long time
when he lost everything
Because of the bastard
his wife did not give birth
Insisted he was theirs
He threatened so many people
That all of his friends
Ran the other way
who could blame them
When Jimmy came to town
He was sure the storm
Outside was not a hurricane
He had survived o many of them
She was there taking care of the two youngest
His wife could not be stopped
From having children
But then never took care of them
She was a grown woman
Who should have had her own family
She could not have babies
But took care of others
She should have been married
But the other girls took everything
He had not known what Demi
Would become nor that Maria
Could not get around his wife
She was working for the government
As he had doing what was needed
To keep them all alive
His son was supposed to be there
At some point
She had found them
In the middle of the night
And brought the boys
To him and food and supplies
Good thing I found you
I have been checking all of the place
You are not supposed to be here
They say it might only be a storm
But it will still be bad
He went down for her
He knew his mother was nearby
She wanted her husband to know
What it had meant to be left
Behind during a storm
And children she did not want
He was going to allow his father
To suffer the night while he watched
And then she would come in and forgive him
Then they could be a family again
With the real sister
Instead of this one who kept showing up
He did not want to hurt her he said
Later to the doctors
Who explained about the mothers
Illness of blaming others
For things she had suffered as a child
Jimmy was never going to leave them alone
And those other rats were always around
To get even for not being part
Of a war heroes family
Instead of criminals
Who spent the war in prison
How long does it take to grow up?
He had the boys laying with him
And telling them stories
While she was taken outside
And arrested
It took her all night
To convince the police
That she was the mayor
As her father who was mayor
They had made her their hero
Only to have the rif raf
Arrive again and again
She was let off at the house
She found it empty
Except for her father
Who was just lying there
As before with his eyes open
And a needle in his arm
He was on morphine
His injuries from the burning
He had endured were not healed
Had he given himself
An injection to end the pain?
Or had one of the others
Come in deciding to end
The one who had never done
Anything at all
But survived
Jimmy was not going to get away
With destroying this man's life
She said to herself
As she laid down next to hm
As she had her sister
Asking God to forgive her
For hating the ones responsible
For the senselessness
Of her mother's life
When she was gone
She was going to take care of jimmy
Which is why he hired Maria and Demi
To take care of her
While he sits there playing
With his limp useless appendage
What world would allow
The bastard of a celebrity
To have so much control
Even God can't hear her prayers
Nor can he rescue his own
Without permission from Jimmy
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