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Through Your Mother's Eyes
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Through Your Mother's Eyes |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
Through Your Mother’s Eyes At sixteen, a relatively harmless joyride in a van that was school property got away with it once tried it, again roadblock ahead was it your intention to strike the officer or were you just trying to speed around his car At seventeen, a short stay in what they called a prep school we hoped would set your mind straight though your mother cried every night for missing you she believed the punishment was right At twenty, rumors in this small town put you in an alley with an undercover agent dead by his own gun you swore your innocence that is, once I found you and I told your mother what you’d said she believes you to this day At twenty-two, banks were entered in New York and Philly slipped in and out without consequence arrogance overtook you returning home then brazenly robbed your own branch stopped for gas on the way out how stupid could you be, your mother still asks At twenty-four, assaulted a guard in your state prison so they sent you far away where your mother nor I can readily see you and tomorrow they will execute a fellow inmate of yours your mother has already arranged to work a double so she won’t have to think I will stand and witness for her, once again though we won’t speak of it At twenty-five, could you try just once to see it all through your mother’s eyes |
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Watersign6 Senior Member
since 2001-05-25
Posts 823Hurricane,WV |
very sad but very powerful and it is just a shame so many kids take the wrong path in life and dont think of how it will affect the rest of their lives and the people who love them either. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
JLR~ Powerfully poignant ... A mother's heart may break a thousand times, yet she still wants to believe there is someone there worth loving. So sad is this ... ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Mother_Earth Senior Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 13701/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan |
JLR, a mother is always ready to give once more. Only when they become that parent, can they begin to understand. Many hugs for that mother and may she know others share her tears. ME |
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redwriter1 Member
since 1999-07-22
Posts 480Franklin, TN |
Please tell me this isn't a true story  I don't think parents are to blame for everything their children do, but...... babies aren't born to bad, and 4 year olds only know right from wrong from their parents. Im am no perfect parent by any means. Far from it. I just hope the mother who is hurting, was there for the child when they were hurting........unseen, and unheard. (smile)...... very powerful words |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
WS---Amen and thank you for responding. Marge---And she still does...thanks. ME---I will share this with her when and if she is ever ready. Thank you. redwriter1---True story, sorry. His mother was and still is beyond any blame other than her own. BTW...this young man, once a kind, loving child is now housed in the same federal prison as Timothy McVeigh and will in a few short hours 'witness' his execution in a way that I will (gratefully) never comprehend. Mercy to us all. |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
I can barely respond to this, it hurts this mother's heart almost as if it were my child, I so feel for that family. Redwriter: I once heard a profound radio message asking listeners to ponder how we don't teach a child to do bad things, we have to teach them to do good things. I do know, too, that with some it takes a myriad of people working consistently together to teach the good way to be toward others. That is no small task these days when community is almost a thing of the past. |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Hey JLR what can I say. In a family of five kids every once in awhile one of them will turn out bad despite a good upbringing. How's it explained? Genetics? I don't know, but I do know that you have painted the word picture right and this was a very very enjoyable read because of the skills you used! |
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ParisGrl Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 610 |
R.J. This is a very moving poem....it makes one think. Although i don't want to know what my mother sees. Laura |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Scientists are always arguing over biology or socialisation... methinks socialisation plays the most part...however it has been proven that the brains of some criminals lack either a small or entire element that produces conscience or the ability to feel consequence, mercy, remorse etc...\ horrible to think on. Good poem...powerful thoughts..  K |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
RJ, this is very powerful. . . what thoughts must be going through the mind of these people. . . we will never know, but, these words might help us to understand. . . ------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
Very powerful indeed, makes one thinks about our kids future.Thanks for sharing. |
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Tara Simms Senior Member
since 1999-08-12
Posts 1244Honea Path, SC USA |
Words cannot express how this poem has moved me. I work at a private school (probably very similiar to the one you mentioned in your poem) with troubled/defiant teens. Our students often fail to realize the paths they are on and where they are headed. They don't understand why their parents put them here. I'd love to share this poem with them; maybe it will help them to see. |
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Saunni Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 1777West Virginia |
JLR, this is an awesome write. I'm just sorry also it had to be real. This is so very touching, My Friend. Sauni Sauni :) |
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