Dear Mama, can you hear me?
Dear Mama, are you still there?
Dear Mama, can you help me?
Dear Mama, do you even care?
Mama, you made me this
you broke me down
you turned me into someone else
Mama, you made me hate
it's hard to love
when you don't even like yourself
Yeah, I'm crying in the bathroom
and I don't even know what it's about
Yeah, I'm screaming at my husband
I love him, but your words come from my mouth
Yeah, I can't ever have a child
I don't trust myself or what I might do
Yeah, there's a voice inside my head
and damn it, Mama, it sounds just like you
Dear Mama, I can hear you
Dear Mama, you're always there
Dear Mama, I can't help it
Dear Mama, why do I still care?
Mama, you haunt me now
I hear your words
I feel them somewhere in my mind
Mama, I don't know how
but I'll move on
and leave you somewhere far behind
Yeah, my world has changed so much now
I'm someone you would never recognize
Yeah, I've tried to go on with my life
and tell myself your words were only lies
Yeah, I'm trying to forget about you
forget the hate in every word you've spoken
Yeah, I'm trying to pull myself together
gather all the pieces you left broken
Dear Mama, you don't hear me
Dear Mama, you weren't there
Dear Mama, you never helped me
Dear Mama, you never cared
Dear Mama, I can't hear you
Dear Mama, you're not there
Dear Mama, I won't help you
Dear Mama, I no longer care
A contest entry
- Erase the Hate: Stop Child Abuse February's Contest: Child Neglect by Page Shut down.
600 points, ended March 4, 2008, 17 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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i can relate to this my mum would not recognize me
i can relate sommuch to this yeah i'm triny to forget about you forget the hate in every word you've spoken but sometimes it is so hard but the past does not equal the future good luck with the contest -
If I was to hear this on the radio I would break down in tears ... takes a lot of courage to write about this subject and you have done so flawlessly.
♥
Thank you for your entry
Best of luck
Stay safe
~Manda
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wow this is powerful and emotion charged. clear signs of verbal and psychological abuse and so sad. clearly the signs of this type of abuse don't go away. after dealing with it so long, it becomes part of you even to the point of being afraid to be a mother yourself. what an emotion write. best of luck in the contest. be well and be blessed
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Multigenerational devastation of verbal and psychological abuse. In reacting to hate and rejection, we often become exactly what we hate.
Only love, for self and others, can overcome that.
Well done.
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GREAT!
I love the direction you went with this...it strays from the topic abit but at the same time is right-on in the aspect of how abuse doesn't just happen then go away it shows that it lingers and haunts you in the fact that you may very well become the animal that hurt you in the first place and then it addresses overcoming it (i loved the way you used that to rap it up).....thank you for the entry best of luck
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this poem makes me feel about my mum and it is hard to pull ourselfs togetherand gather the broken pieces but thats what makes us stronger the past does not equal the future
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