There’s a place in time I always go back to
A bedroom in the home I slept
Where I prayed for love, and I begged you
To stop the cycle you beat me as I wept
You broke the eggs upon whose shells I walked
I hung on your every word, obeyed your every rule
You praised me vehemently though you never talked
The bruises, scars, forced to change my school
One second you were evil; the next, you were fine
I cherished your love unlike any other
You’d move with care and turn on a dime
Nothing a daughter should see in her mother
Tag: life
Admired
Roaring ocean, warm air, throat burning
Heart pounding, lungs begging for air
Mind vulnerable, loneliness’s glare turning
Eyes on me, a move to make I cannot bare
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Choices escape clarity, nowhere to hide
Glances cause insecurity, vagueness looms
Specificity, a battle inside
Decisions each clearly own their dooms
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Fighting feeling meaning, future unknown
Despite effort and exhaustion, sleep escapes
The toil and depression, my own
The tomorrow my choice shapes
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A dream ever so frantically persistent
Constantly tearing me from the certain
Fault my own, mind so insistent
A beautiful future awaiting a pull of the curtain
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Watch the pull of the tide
As I craft the end, so long desired
Prevailing decisions, influenced by what’s inside
A future beautiful, designed by me and by all, admired
Mike Writes 