The Mother You Shouldn't be
Janelle Barker
The Mother You Shouldn’t Be
Shauna Taylor, 40
This is her story
Made her children sick
Like a Hollywood flick
With non-existent illnesses
This is true Non- Fiction
Hard to grasp
But charged with conviction
Mother, if you can call her that
To 12 children
Eventually was sent to prison
Poisoning their baby bottles with insulin
Force fed pennies, nickels & dimes
Are only some of the horrific crimes
Two brothers lockd in a dog cage
Thrown around the room
It happened so often
It’s hard to imagine, these kids
Came from her womb
All siblings removed from her care
Seeing they were fragile
You couldn’t help but stare
Lack of food, they were weak
Prayers for a new life
They did seek
They were fed iron pills
Which caused liver damage
This course of action
Is so savage
Convicted of aggravated child abuse & neglect
12 years in prison
15 years of probation
She should be exposed
& her location
Tylenol was given often
In & out of hospital daily
How no doctor or nurse
Didn’t click to anything
Is gravely
Poisoning her infants inside
The hospital
To get away with this for so long
Is despicable
The father never around due to work
Could not figure out why his kids had
Severe medical issues
Without investigating further
The abuse continued
he said, he failed miserably
Felt daubed & destroyed
How do you think your children felt
They felt null n void
He failed to protect the children he had
He does not deserve the title
Of being called Dad
About the Creator
Janelle barker
Author of emotives
Poetry is powerful
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