I was a beat cop

Once upon a time

After working my shift

12 hours on my feet

I was tired

I went home 

I took off my gun belt and hung it up

I reclined in my ez chair

And sat in the dark room 

And eased into blissful sleep

My blissful slumber is disturbed

15 minutes of sleep

My 7 year old daughter 

Turned on the TV 

Watching one of her cutie shows

I chased her off and send her to her room

I return to sleep 

Unaware of what chaos has been wrought

I wake up again

2 hours this time

I go to the bathroom

I do my business 

And as I pull my britches back up

I feel something is wrong

Down there

It burns 

I immediately go back in the bathroom

I turn on the water faucet 

And start filling the tub with cold water

I think to myself what could have cause this

As I sit in the tub

Soaking my buttocks

To relieve the burning pain

My eye flit across the room 

My sight lands on the toilet paper

I take a single sheet from the roll 

I smell it

And beneath the 4 ply softness

Lies the faint smell of pepper spray

My daughter

Punished me 

For not spending time with her

She snuck my pepper spray from my gun belt

Sprayed the toilet paper with it

And snuck it back to my belt

I was not mad

I was proud

To know that if any man wrong my daughter

He would not have long left to live.