Mother
So where were you that night I was conceived?
Was it a bar? or was it the street?
How did it happen?
Was it too many pills? Or too much to drink?
How did you feel,
when you found out about me?
Were you really so mad, that you wanted me dead,
like the other children you never had?
Why aren’t you the mother I need?
Is it because you hate me,
or are you just too busy for me?
What did I do, to make you leave?
And why are you so blind,
that you can’t see, all the pain that you’ve caused me?
I needed you there, to soothe my wounds.
And I wanted you there, to watch cartoons.
But you weren’t there, WHY?!
In 1984:
I was born unto a parent unknown, and a parent with no desire to be.
A mistake; un-belonging from the first breath, blink, and cry.
“We should sell him…”
A burden; un-wanted before a first word was spoken, or a first step walked.
Left to a parent’s parent.
Abandoned;Â a nuisance too great to bother with any longer.
In 1987:
The parent returns, “I don’t even want him. I just don’t want him with HER.”
Mother abandoned her son.
Grandmother ran from her daughter.
uncle jumped his parole.
I feel like it’s time to run again.
My role-models never faced their fears.
Why should I be any different?
Is there a destiny?
Has fate laid it all before us,
like a yellow brick road paved with potential?
Or do we fulfill our own prophecies,
choosing to live moment by passing moment,
determined to find greatness?
Written by an Anonymous Poet