Tina Bassett Poet Free verse

It's All I Can Do

I’ve been told don’t bother
Don’t waste your time
He’s too far gone
It’s the end of the line

He has a father
Who will not come through
His time is done
His son he will rue

He will not waste time
On his only son
He spent seven months
And now he is done

So I tell him
That I need to choose
I have to live with myself
Only one will lose

Our son will lose
If both of us turn
Away from him
And all he will learn

If neither of us
Were there for him
What does that say?
And so I step in

I know it looks bad
The choices he’s made
But I will not give up
My love will not fade

I need to be there
And let him see
He has someone
It will always be me

I will be there for him
For all of his days
And then perhaps
He’ll see through the haze

The haze from doing
Everything wrong
You won’t touch feelings
Inhaling a bong

That’s what he does
Every day
Not in front of me
I won’t have it that way

But it is being done
It’s in his eyes
He can’t hide the effect
He can’t hide the lies

Of telling me
He’s no longer using
You’ve been arrested twice
In one year? We are losing

The connection we had
When you were once young
Is what I want back
And where you belong

Into the arms
Of the mother who had
The child of her dreams
And then he went bad

But there’s good in you
This I do know
I know your heart
And all you can do

We hold each other
You cry in my arms
It breaks my heart
You cause your own harm

But never think
That I won’t be there
You are all that I am
Your pain I will bear

If it one day helps
To get you through
And past this time
It’s all I can do

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