there is a new spark of life
on the negatives today
your magnetic films show a fungal growth
there is decay
to be had
at your spinal worst
and you are incapable of pretending to be
one's mother.
to forget my own childhood was
well,
easy.
you were a mother stuck beneath
the midwestern storm of constant oxycodone.
and i have come full circle with
my palms opened,
now
as we try and form a broken
egg shell
family.
you have been struck by this
horrible disease, i feel sick
I feel the lingering effects
of last night and maybe drugs
that existed, last night
but we're here.
you laugh, and talk it off
but the pictures can't be shaken off
and you, you are terribly unwell
its all gone to hell.
Author notes
no need to stir controversy, i struggle with drugs myself
but my mom has ruined her body, and with it, her health
so should i care?
im not so sure.
A contest entry
- Controversy by I swashbuckler OK.
470 points, ended July 22, 2007, 19 entries
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Comments
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I am sorry for your struggle and wish you well with it but I fail to see any controversy in this. Thanks for entering though and good luck.
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very powerful.... wow... i can't imageine what this would be like... but this piece was really moving... and it almost numbed me... hard to explain...
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