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Jana Tovey Member
since 2000-05-30
Posts 257USA |
We are our mother's salvation. Each month the child support rolls in, and as our mother simultaneously rolls out of the driveway, my sister and I settle in to our weekend roles...the ones that involve raising our half-sister, who is not yet a year old. We learned from an early age how to cook and clean, wash clothes, be self sufficient...sometimes left alone for nights, now days, as mother pursues her latest victim. When we asked to live with our Dad, the guilt was laid on thickly and we unwittingly succumbed to it. Our mother needs us, if not for us she might have to work... get a job, clean her own house, raise her own little baby. How sad that she might not have any receptacles for her psychotic notions. We have been good daughters, but we have had our fill. So, Happy Mother's Day from both of us - we'd like to buy a card, but so far we can't find one to express the sentiments we feel. In this day and age, you'd think there'd be a card for each unique situation, even ours, one new millenium mom... absent, again, as mother's day fell on a weekend. |
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Songbird Member Elite
since 1999-12-15
Posts 2184Missouri |
A sad senario, forced to grow up too soon on on account of one who can't or won't try. A all too frequent case in many families. A serious subject well expressed . [This message has been edited by Septsong (edited 06-05-2000).] |
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Swåmp¤Faerÿie Member
since 2000-03-29
Posts 358Illinois |
This is so sad,but very well written. and i really can't say much more,except how sad it is that this happens. swamp And there she weaves by night and day, a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson |
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Alle'cram Senior Member
since 2000-02-28
Posts 1816Texas |
Jana, I am deeply touched by your poem. My heart hurts for you and your sisters. I am sorry. May your storms soon end. (((HUGS))) |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
This is very sad, Jana.  Denise |
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Jon Mewett Senior Member
since 2000-03-04
Posts 1304 |
This is a little sad it's true But it's very well expressed....by YOU. Chin up Jana ....and keep writing  Jon |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Jana, that was a beautiful tribute. I felt a little tear in my eye ( that is as close I get to crying normally) honestly. yes it is quite sad, but so beautifully written. A damn fine poem. One of my favourites of your excellent collection of poems. ------------------------ "I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else"-Richey Edwards "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity" Nicky Wire, A design for Life. manic street preachers "Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany Culture, alienation, boredom and despair" "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. |
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Lost Dreamer Member Elite
since 1999-06-20
Posts 2464Somewhere near the Rainbow |
Jana, Very well written poem, and very sad indeed. |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
this is amazing writing Jana.. so beautiful, unfortunate.. so much emotion in your words there.. I can't describe how I feel upon reading this.. Muy buena amiga.. Lynne |
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