Poem

Mistakes

A girl sits in her room.

She stares sadly at the black walls.

She wonders; she worries

About her future.

She regrets and thinks about,

Her past mistakes.

She feels sorry for,

The things she's done.

But her mother has

No faith in her anymore.

She cries all the time,

But the pain doesn't go.

She wishes she could

Take everything back

But to right her wrong,

Would be to never learn

Her lessons.

She wonders if life

Will get better.

She needs somewhere,

To belong.

She needs to find

A way to feel whole again.

The lies she never

Meant to tell.

Still makes her life hell.

She wants someone

To understand her.

She needs

Someone to understand.

Her mother

Makes her feel

Like she has no soul.

Makes her feel

So sick and unloved.

She wants so badly

To feel

Like a person.

Instead, she feels

Like a monster.

Her mother's eyes

So accusing,

So full of hate.

Is it possible

For a mother to hate her daughter?

Is it fair

To call her a liar?

To say she can't stand

Being near her?

Is that what

She deserves?

To be criticized

And treated

Like a criminal?

Is it right?

The mother

Doesn't understand

That the things she says

Hurts so deeply.

Cuts through

The skin,

And stabs the heart,

Like an arrow

Stinging with poison.

Is it possible

To cross

An unseen line

For her mother

To be so cruel?

I wrote this after a particularly awful "conversation" with my mother...