Missing

I lost myself to my grief

And you asked me why

I mourned my diminished light

Like candle blown in the night

My life is brief

Can’t you let me breath

And you said I’ve breathed enough

It’s time to go to sleep

I tossed and turned in bed

Thinking where I went so wrong

I made a human mistake

Why was I punished as so?

You called me worthless

And my children will be so

Now motherhood is part of my fears

Too afraid to be like you

I know too well

Life’s a circle

If my children not meant to be like me

Maybe I’m meant to be like you

I look back at the light now darkened

Smoke fade in whispers

Fading echoes of the past

Of my once, true, joyous and fearless.

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