Incarceration
Your incarceration
Causes me humiliation
I try my best not to bring it up
But my mind stays in this location
I miss you so much but our relationship has never had a firm foundation
Yes our relationship is just a complication
So what am I to do
You once were good to me
But everything has changed
A mother to me you were but now you are estranged
Maybe prison will change you
Maybe something’s to be arranged
Because of you my mind is now deranged
So now while we both sit staring at wall
I tend to sit and wait for a 877 call
Trying to remember our last interaction but I just can’t quite seem to recall
Went through your things that people treated like a take all
An intense anger that did install
Before and after this incarceration
Our relationship is at a deprivation
Cause to you let’s be honest.. I was never an obligation
As a mother you sent in your resignation
Leaving me to learn how to be patient
I wrote you letters hoping to make your day
But in prison I’m not sure a day can be made
A small piece of writing
a letter written like band aid
Praying to god that behind bars you don’t slowly fade
They said at least a decade
I heard and it felt like I was pushed in the deep end holding bricks I was weighed
Down to the bottom I can’t catch my breath
Yes I am so afraid
Now Having to communicate with people from the past
Needing help to talk to you so on my grudges I place a cast
Seeing old faces and saying let’s get to the point no need to contrast
Our feelings set aside and let’s keep all this off broadcast
Our relationship is unsurpassed
I need this process to move a little fast
So your incarceration
Has caused my heart some deflation
At a point of starvation
For something more than just a blood relation
So now I’ve made it my proclamation
That I will never be something even considered your replication
Copyright © Raylin Gee | Year Posted 2025
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