Abuse of others is never the solution to resolving or managing anger, but a reckless approach to resolving a bad situation. Following the destruction caused by the minefield, anger causes destruction within his family due to his uncontrolled stress. The shame of the abuse is expressed through the children's voices: "He gave them to us - in the volume of his anger, / in the bruises that we covered with sleeves" (14, 15, 425). Just like the body scattered across the minefield, children suffer from frights scattered all over their bodies. The level of anger a person must feel to continue to release the stress placed on their children without a guilty conscience is alarming enough. The tragic result of the poem is that the father has created the same fear in the minds of his children that a minefield that explodes at any moment could linger in their