The Day My Mother Died
My Mother started taking pills
Believing it would cure all her ills
But instead of harmony, she became a pharmacy
My world turned upside side down, no more normalcy
She became someone who I didn't know
This isn't the person who helped me grow
She claimed schizophrenia, all I saw was mania
With all her monsters, our home became Transylvania
I'd lock my bedroom door at night
Fall asleep full of fright
Thinking she just might, kill me in her plight
I talked to her doctor, was told to go away
The police were no help, man this cray
Unless she actually caused harm, they would not raise the alarm
But for me and my brothers our home was a farm
Tried to get her committed, but was met with resistance
No matter how loud I voiced my persistence
She'd disappear in the night, wondering what went wrong
How many times do we have to scream out the same old song
MOM, WHERE ARE YOU? I think she's lost in the forest
Where's the woman who was always there for us
All these years later, all the tears they have dried
Though she's alive, I live as if it was the day Mother died.
Copyright © Cc Browning | Year Posted 2017
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