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For more poetry of mine, click this playlist: www.youtube.com -- Dear Mom, I'm having one sided conversations with your grave And I begin to cave As tears pour from my eyes Like rivers running wild. How could you leave your child With only a ring? How could you leave your family? I miss you terribly. And I recall memories Deteriorating away to nothing, But you were always something. You'll always be something to me. I trace your name, I get a chill. How could you just lose the will To survive and provide and care? Overbear like a normal mother would do! Scold me and scream with me and argue Argue with the girls, with dad, with me. I'll say "I hate you" And you'll say you love me As I cry again, Like a normal family. Teach me how to drive And how to survive without a mother figure Because I don't think you've prepared me for this. And I want to hate you And for you to hate me Like one big happy family Because that would mean you'd be smiling back at me as I yell. But instead ! you're underground Just a pile of flesh rotting away And I don't care, because that's no longer you. That was just your canvas, A temporary placeholder for your artwork. And after over forty years of painting what have you left behind? A broken family That will never function the same, With children unsure of their name, Who will eventually forget all of the things you've done for us. And it's all because you left. It's all your fault, It's always been your fault. But I'll still love you And I'll still ...

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