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ABeautifulMistake
New Member

since 2011-05-28

Posts 2
Tasmania, Australia

0 posted 2011-05-28 03:36 PM

I didn't have the easiest childhood, i'm not trying to whine and whinge, i've just started dealing with everything and at 5.36 in the morning, this is the only way i know how, its the only way that actually makes any sense..

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I was there when i was eight years old and there was housework to be done
I was there when there were meals to be cooked
I was there to raise your son

I was there when your wife laid in bed every single day
I was there to run the family home
I was there when you couldn’t stay

I was there when i was sixteen and it got to much to take
I was there to keep your kid in school
I was there for my brothers sake

I was there when i was seventeen and pop gotreally sick
I was there when your wife cheated
I was there through thin and thick

I was there when pop went into hospital and eventually passed away
I was there when you said goodbye
I was there to stay

I was there were your son got alcohol poisoning at the age of sixteen
I was there when you worked interstate
I was there where you SHOULD have been

I was there when i was nineteen and you fell in love again
I was there when you needed anything
I’d been there since i was ten...
But where were you when i was six and couldn’t brush my hair?
Where were you when i broke my wrist?
Why were you never there?

Where were you when i was ten and life just seemed so hard?
Where were you when mum said she was dying?
Where were you when i made her a card?

Where were you when i was twelve and i had my first date?
Where were you when that boy broke my heart?
Where were you when i found hate?

Where were you when i was fourteen and i told you mummy lied?
Where were you when you knew she wasn’t dying?
Where were you when i cried?

Where were you when i was sixteen and i told you that she’d cheat?
Where were you when she got found out?
And when she knocked me off my feet?

Where you when uni started and your son went off the rails?
Where you when he need help?
And where were you when he got bail?

Where were you last month when i had nowhere else to stay?
Where were you when your son took everything
And left a thousand bills to pay?

Where were you yesterday when i fell down to the floor?
Where were you when i fell apart
When i couldn’t take it anymore?

I’ll tell you where you were, hell you’ve been there for years
Running away from everything
Running from all your fears
Running from your daughter who’s trying hard to battle through
Running from your responsibilities
Because your not man enough to battle too
Running from the mistake you made twenty years ago
You got into bed with a woman
Who turned out to be a hoe

But i’m really sick of crying, hell i have issues too
But tell me where you were daddy
When i fell out of love with you!

~ Somebody Told Me This Is A Place Where Everything's Better, Where Everything's Safe! ~

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-05-28 03:53 PM

I relate. On the other side of the coin. My daughter could have written this. After forty years we are communicating.

~ I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" / I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance ~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2011-05-28 11:05 PM

Nice when you can let it all out...James

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2011-05-29 03:35 AM

Perhaps it is time to start a new life. I hope you are able to find something/ someone positive in your future. Good luck to you.
Ida

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2011-05-29 05:32 AM

Welcome to Pip, dear BeautifulMistake, I think only a few in this world can say that they had a very easy childhood. In this beautiful world of ours we all have to cope with difficulties, lack of love, lack of many things. You have taken on your young shoulders so many responsibilities, it is comprehensible that you need to elaborate these experiences.

Your poem renders your emotions very powerfully.

In forgiveness stays the opportunity to heal.

I love Jerry's reply, his humbleness and his honesty. You see? His comment is a precious gift for you.

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

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