The Picture Is Always Pretty

• Artist: Music_Is_My_Heart_N_Soul
• Description: just a poem about how people may always think a family is perfect, but they only see what they want to be seen and nothing underneath.
• Date: 03/29/2009
• Tags: picture always pretty hatred anger

What everyone sees is always pretty.
The picture
A mom and a dad happily married,
Two daughters and a dog.
It looks like the perfect family.
The picture is always pretty.

No one sees what’s really happening.
The father constantly yelling over the stupidest things
The mother taking it all, trying to stay for the kids.
Said kids are sick of the fighting,
Wishing their father would leave their lives.
But the picture is always pretty.

The mother’s ready to leave, ready for divorce
They don’t know when he’ll finally snap
And they’ll all be dead before they can escape from their living hell
The kids are frustrated
The mom is upset
The father remains in control, in power.
But the picture is always pretty.

The mother and daughters live in fear of the father.
Other days they just don’t care believing, “if he does kill us it will finally be over”
The house is full of hate along with lies of claimed love
The mother and daughters want to die
The father, if not physically, he is verbally cruel
The mother and daughters wish it would all end
The father won’t let it.
But still, the picture is always pretty.

Comments

[Cheshire Butterfly]

TOO TRUE!!! my mom divorced my dad (nasty costody war) Then my sight dropped drastically like 3 points in 9 months and they didn't even stop when my sis had a breakdown but divorce is better than constant fighting WAAAAY better.

[Nurse Katherine]

sooo true:

[skatergirl1267]

so your life written out is about all the little things people don`t see.to me this poem makes u think about the little things in life

[Music_Is_My_Heart_N_Soul]

I appreciate you comments, and I take them for well, but yes it was the point to repeat the line 'the picture is always pretty' repetition is used in many poems to show importance. And I'm sorry you don't feel thr true pain behind the poem, but it's not acted, this is my life written out.

[MsMarija]

It's with a undercurrent things. But few things disturbed me. It's that you always repeat the sentence: "But the picture is always pretty" I know that that's the main idea, but you can find more words. Second: that this is so not real, I mean that I believe that things like this is happening in our life, but this poem is like acted, I not feel a real pain or something.