MOTHER
Patricia Ann Reilly
You never knew what I was about
You never cared about my feelings
You never cared about my dreams
You never said a kind word to me.
You abused me emotionally and physically.
You told me I was garbage
You told me you never wanted me
You told me I should kill myself
You told me I wasn't worthy of life.
You never loved me because you never knew me.
How I always wished I could have a mother's love
To be held once by a caring mother
To have been accepted, have human contact
To be shown love and not abuse.
Well, Mother --
I am not garbage ! I'm not trash !
I wasn't born to be abused !
You tried to haunt my dreams
You tried to make me join you in death
But I belong here -- and you have gone
to your just reward.
Mother -- you don't know me.
I care about people, I'm compassionate
I'm loving, I have dreams
I am moral, I have spiritual values.
I'm everything you could never be and more
God has made a flower garden out of your DIRT !
Reason for writing:
I have a collection of these poems that I wrote about
abuse issues, and the terrible price one have to pay for
abuse-- suffering from PTSD, severe depression
and suicidal thoughts, to name a few of the after effects
that one sees from abused children/adults.
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