I glance upon your aching smile,
Beauty – painful, yet your sadness, transfixing.
They all see the daring, brave, black beauty that you are –
Your external shell, a force to be reckoned with –
a fearless flawless imperfection.

The dreamer in me – beaten and charred, sees beyond your façade,
The plagued anguish of a soul, betrayed by weakened eyes –
I see when our gazes become entangled – you understand – and reject
This burden plagues both of us – I know just as you do.

I am a childless mother – my innards barren – a home evicted.
Your father, undearest, screams when you close your eyes at night –
I see the fear, laced amongst your chained heart – he bellows –
You scream to escape – to be accepted and freed
The little girl in you too afraid to do what your external shell portrays.

I love you so much – when our eyes share those broken, inspiring gazes
I love you.
I want you and need you, desire you and plead for you.
I wish my daughter – had she survived – grown up to be half the woman you are –

Even though frightened and afraid – you are the rock for all the others – home to all.
Let me be home to you – let me free you from Daddy the beast.
I love you.
Let you be my child – let me be the mother for you, which you were always denied.
Let me save you - so you can save me.
Let me be the mother I was born to be –
You have always been a misplaced and hoping child to me.