Why Mom?
Can I just ask, why?
What did I do to you to deserve this?
You say you love me but this is not love.
This is not love.
Love is not hitting me in the face.
Love is not hitting me anywhere.
Love is not yelling.
Love is not cruel words you say to me.
Love is not physical or emotional abuse.
Love is not alcohol.
Love is not drinking by yourself in your room.
Love is not drinking with people who use you.
Love is not putting alcohol above all.
Love is not putting alcohol before me.
Love is not supposed to create hate.
Love is not abuse.
Why, Mom?
I'm begging you to stop.
I'm on my hands and feet begging.
Please, Mom.
Stop drinking.

Don't love me,
If your not ready to love me,
Deeply
If you can fathom,
without me,
living despite me.
Don't love me,
If your lungs don't breath
for me
If your heart doesn't beat
for me

Or me, or
son. Or brother
from another Mother
or Father

or
God

or any other
to love or adore.
Or dream
Or wake up

or
Will

or force
yourself to.
Organized religion
or Catholics who pray

or
You

or those
who do not.
******* or ecstasy.
Or abandon

or
Forsake

or forgive
those who deceive.
Or strange suitors
or the jilted

or
Me

or I
or the original sin,
the temptation,
or Godless orphan.

If I could take your problem
And fix it

Believe me, I would

If I could take your wounds
And heal them

Believe me, I would

I plan to love you past my capability

I plan to love you until all of heaven and earth's love has run out

I plan to love you until the end of The Neverending Story

I plan to love you until all the world's hope has run dry

I plan to love you even after the day we both die

The thing I love about cats
Is that they can wear hats
I'd love them to wear spatz
But that would look ridiculous.

A cat in a hat
Dancing in spatz
Is the key to my happiness
Fancy that!