How Would I Know

How would I know her pain, her struggles She cooks for him She gives him money He is her favourite child She mostly praises him But it's tough for her sometimes Sometimes most times He doesn't always adhere to the rules Sometimes his mind tells him things Sometimes he carries a machete and scares everybody Sometimes he gets into fights, depending on what his minds tells him Depending on the voices in his head Depending on the people and things he sees How would I know how it feels to raise a healthy child all the way to adulthood A genius child A child who excelled in school A child who could build anything and everything A child who could go anywhere, a child who could be anything Only to change in adulthood Only to become a mental illness case Another diagnosis, one after another They label him And they label her too She is an "enabler" How would I know her pain, her struggles To my mother, to my brother