Dear Mom

by A.N.M. - Pisces

You started out so wonderfully
Doted on excessively
The youngest girl of five
So happy, young, alive!
I heard it from your sisters
And saw it in old pictures
Got "cutest" in your senior year
A cheer-leader with out a fear
Went on to college...so much fun
And a "doctor" you had won!
The marriage came without a glitch
Soon to be both happy and rich
You had no clue at all!
That your life would take a fall!
For the "doctor" that you married
Had a problem that he carried
And soon it would all come out
There'd be no shread of doubt
That he was cursed by alcohol!
And screams of, "damn it all!!"
Would fill your daily life 
As a mother and a wife
Four children you gave birth to
While suffering this curse too
Your pretty hair kept falling out
And "doctor" lost his clout
Then came the diagnosis
Your brain tumor..ATROCIOUS!!
I can't believe your rotten luck!
Jeez life can really suck!
And as for me, well I now see
How hard it was for you to be
The mother that I wanted
All those years the anger haunted
My perceptions of your motherhood
I wish I then had understood
But only until recently
Have I had eyes to see
For now you're gone 
And the only one
I hate is me.


Birth sign: Pisces
Date created: 2005-11-21 23:41:26
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:55
Poem ID: 71063

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