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One day she said to me Mommy, I want to be like you. But what she doesn't know, because she's too young to understand is that I don't even want to be me. I don't even know who I am. I hide in my room to escape the judgements I can hear their thoughts through their eyes. They try to solve my problems without even knowing them. They don't know how alone I feel and how torn I am between wanting to be a mother of two or a sad woman. I cannot be both. I push everyone away and immediately want them back. I'm always just hoping they will stay no matter how hard I push. I wish I could erase all of those terrible memories from my children's heads. They don't talk about it. They just move on and I stay in regret. This puddle of regret that I love to bathe in.
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 2:09 AM UTC
My Mother Ran
One day she said to me Mommy, I want to be like you. But what she doesn't know, because she's too young to understand is that I don't even want to be me. I don't even know who I am. I hide in my room to escape the judgements I can hear their thoughts through their eyes. They try to solve my problems without even knowing them. They don't know how alone I feel and how torn I am between wanting to be a mother of two or a sad woman. I cannot be both. I push everyone away and immediately want them back. I'm always just hoping they will stay no matter how hard I push. I wish I could erase all of those terrible memories from my children's heads. They don't talk about it. They just move on and I stay in regret. This puddle of regret that I love to bathe in.
Thoughts of my mother. She was always trying to escape. But you can't run from yourself.
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 2:09 AM UTC
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