Mixed Emotions

MIXED EMOTIONS Mother deserved every bit of my love She was my first love She was the love of my teenage years. I lived without the love I loved High atop the stairs I sat, waiting Torn between poverty and pseudo power. Did you not know love grows? A single flower blooms on pavement A helpless pup found in abandonment A cornered bird cared for Deeply buried love can be unearth. The pain of going astray Blinding fog of delay Who cared I drifted? Looking for love in wrong places, when All along it brewed within. *