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Will there ever be another that we've lost?
Has he disappeared?
Is he now the fragment of our imagination?
Is he now a legacy to those that never got to meet him?
Stories are told about him
How he deceived so many
How he became victim of his own worst enemy
How they used him to manipulate that young girl's heart
How he conspired to destroy her innocence
How he helped pour poison on her food
How He helped lift the hands that brought muffled sounds of fists on her flesh
How he made her believe what her father did to her was all in his wonderful name
All in his wonderful name LOVE

He gently undresses her
Caressed her dearly
Touched her tenderly
"Don't worry" he said "I'm doing this in the name of love"
she felt the urge to stop him
A voice insinuating itself towards her mind
She cries out "Stop!"
"I will be gentle" he says
But all in the name of love
She let's him use her
She feels like dirt but let's him
The deed is done
She needs someone to tell her it will be ok
She searches and doesn't find
But all in the name of love
He had stolen her innocence
He had bruised all that was left of her pride
He had destroyed her moral beliefs

But all in the name of love
She him tenderly
Touched him softly
He felt the urge to give her all he had
He would hold back his feelings trying to see where stands
She would make him feel like a king
Make him feel he had seen it all
But all in the name of love
He would stay up all night just to watch her sleep
He would fantasize about her being mother of his kids and she about how he'd make her bank balance mature
But all in the name of love
He commits to her, make her his wife
And she like the wind blows to the opposite direction
Leaving him with a bruised ego
She had destroyed him
She had robbed him off his sense of commitment

But all in the name of love
He touches her in places she had never been touched in fear she cries
"Its okay my baby" he says "this is just to prove my love"
"Do not tell anyone its our own lil secret"
"Daddy u hurting me please stop!" She cries
But all in the name of love

he continues hurting her
She cries till there are no more tears in her eyes
The house was not big enough for the two them anymore
She decides a life had to be taken another spared
Is it his or hers?
He Is still my father, a dog but still my father
But all in the name of love
She decides to take hers and spare his
His conscious plays tricks on him
He cannot spend a day sober trying to forget
Every night he returned home to his who had always done her best to please him
But all in the name of love

He would beat kick, beat and throw her around
Unable to fight she would lie helplessly on the floor fearing for her children's safety
But all in the name of love
They blamed their mother for what the father did to her
She has no one to turn to
She had had enough
She wasn't to take it any longer
She poisons his food
But all in the name of love
She had killed him
She had destroyed her own moral beliefs
She had taken a life
She lived to be destroyed
But all in the name of love

Love has become his own worst enemy
He has destroyed so many
So many wrongs have been done in his name
Will there ever be another that we've lost?
Has he disappeared forever

By Bongiwe Gajana