My Mother Didn't Want Me
Backward to them
As I clung to the safest place I would ever know with God's unchanging hands
Snatched from my personal comfort zone
Catapulted into a world of mayhem and confusion
Not born but evicted into a life I did not choose
The love for my mother is what made me let go of the delicate uterine walls I had embedded my fingernails into
My love for her allowed me to give her comfort and concede to defeat
I'm out! Who knew the perverts would be waiting in the delivery room
He slaps me on my butt first
Then pinches me because I refuse to play into his mad sadistic game of control
I cry
She holds me
I cry
She comforts me
I cry
She suckles me
I brup, I sleep
She cries
Watching me
She cries
Praying for me
She cries
Being thankful for me
She cries
She didn't want me . . . this soon . . . this way . . . this day
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Post a CommentDid she eventually want you or did you grow up with a knowing of being unwanted ??? How is your relationship now OR, did this beautiful sad poem actually have nothing to do with you personally?
very touching and just as sad. I was not cared for much by my mother as well. Guess that's why I made sure each on my own three were and still are my most important treasure while here on this crappy earth. LOL Nice. Loved reading this.
This reminds me of a very, very similar poem written by a female poet during the Harlem Renaissance.
i think.
Very well written
My momma didn't want me either, so maybe that's why this resonates and is beautiful to me. Thank you!