My Mother and I

My Mother and I

 

 

As a child, you held me

And I curled up next to you

 

You loved me so much.

 

I fell asleep with my head on your shoulder

As we laughed together.

 

You loved me so much.

 

Even when I messed up

You’d have a clean slate ready

 

You loved me so much.

 

...

 

But then I grew up

And entered my “angsty” teenage years

 

...

 

I lied and hurt you

I didn’t show you the love that you deserved

 

But you loved me anyways.

 

I screamed and said that you didn’t understand

You screamed back, sometimes

 

Still you loved me anyways.

 

I was nice to you when I needed something

And when I didn’t I could be rude

 

Yet you loved me anyways.

I watched you battle cancer

And win

And I wasn’t there as much as I should’ve been

 

And you loved me anyways.

 

 

 

 

We didn’t end on the best of terms

And away to college I went

 

 

Now I miss laughing and

The smell of the house around the holidays

 

But I know you love me.

 

I miss coming home exhausted from work

And you making me dinner, now matter how late.

 

But I know you love me.

 

I call you and though we don’t talk for long

I look forward to our conversations

 

And I know you love me.

 

 

A mother’s love should be unconditional

Yours is.

 

 

 

I love you, too.

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My family

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