I expected my parents to be happy for me.
I didn't put the fact that they were unhappy
into the equation
before I blamed them for neglect.
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Mum
You become so happy to see me
because you think I'm looking at you.
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I waited daily for your attention,
but you just let me be abandoned by dad
and criticised me for everything that wasn't like you.
When I gave up the hope of ever being seen and heard,
you started to listen, but then you were already dead to me
and when I forgave you for your debts
there was nothing left between us.
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Yes mum I'm sick,
because you have spewed
all over me.
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Angel tears runs down
soft, round cheeks from big eyes.
A beldam had hissed bitterly.
Tiny steps on the pavement
with lumpy shoes.
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You were under bitter water
when I stretched my hands after you.
You pulled yourself up with them
and dragged me down simultaneously.
Your insults speared my belly
like poisonous spears.
I tried to spew up the poison,
while I was ravenous for your affection.
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Mum
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Mum rebuked.
I puked.
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You drove me crazy.
Out on the highway
where I was run over
by people in a hurry
and depressed into the asphalt
where I got stuck.
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No, I can't collect myself.
I am a soup mum threw out the door
where a door mat should be
so others could walk all over me.
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You throw my thoughts back in my face
and my emotions freeze to my flesh.
I need you, but you don't nurture me.
Just let me down to my sickbed
with words cold and heavy.
Unless they are like yours
you tolerate no move,
but out of sight you don't care what I do.
Happiness is strangled in these dark rooms.
Craziness can fill the sphere,
but nothing can bloom.
I have to shake it off to God
who burns it with His wisdom;
The crazy thoughts, the dirt from you;
Such dark, dumb criticism.
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I felt far from inadequate as a child.
I stretched so far I tore apart
to come close enough to mum
so she could reach me,
but she never popped into my world
before I passed her pushing further,
this time hoping to impress her.
We never came together.
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How can you look down on the self destructive?
Don't you know the cause is degradation?
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You couldn't put up with me
because you never put yourself in my shoes
and you didn't get me.
You kept seeing you.
You never held me
so I had to cling
not to loose touch.
You didn't stand up for me.
You looked down on me.
You upbraided me
so I frayed.
I was too much for you
so you belittled me.
You don't put up with me.
You only know debasement.
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If I am to starve myself
until it shows how little you can see of me
I would only be a porous skeleton,
you see right through, as if I was air.
I want you to be able
to see me behind the surface,
but because you can't
I have to decompose my body.
I know you can not interpret this,
but if I use words instead you won't listen
and if I show emotions you feel no sympathy.
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Her heart was occupied
so I got obsessed with her,
but I didn't get one session.
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It wasn't agreeable to clean mum.
To scrub away scorched scraps from a life
out of a pot with steel brush and knife.
She looked like a hag with burning rage
when I scraped and scraped
and she thought I was the devil itself
when I hacked the evil out.
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You say I have become too thin and ought to eat more.
Can I really be tiny enough for you
who wants to fill all the room for attention?
How can I change my eating pattern
when you don't wish the natural for me;
To be alive or dead?
Therefor I live in limbo
crammed in between two walls
as the isolating filling material.
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How can I not get insulted
when your word-arrows
penetrates my organs?
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I'm not in your path.
I have my own
so you don't have to shove me
in the ditch.
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Your stuffed doll
Scorned I gnawed over the knots
to undo the threads you had tied me with
and get rid of all the rubbish
you had stuffed me with.
You called me unseemly and purl,
but I'm not the costume
you tailored too tight.
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If the woman you have helped a thousand times
calls you unkind when you for once say no
she reveals she was never thankful
for the times you helped.
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What lingers in my heart tells you nothing.
It doesn't express words, but blood of pain.
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Deflated
My abased mother became stuck-up
by jabbing her child with a shepherds crook
when it expressed itself. The air went out of it
and only the skin on the ground remained.
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Dear mother, enemy,
my shadow you carried
until I was freed
from servility.
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You drove me crazy
out on the highway
where I was run over
by people in a hurry
and depressed by the cars
into the asphalt
where i got stuck.
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I became a fighter
to stop a monster
within my mother
and teach her goodness,
but when the job was done
the fighter in me
could not be undone.
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I wished you put yourself in my shoes,
but in your darkness
you couldn't see my navy blue.
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The mesmerising veil of vanity
polarise to conceal despair
which could have been healed
if connection was there.
My mum had one
between her and her son
and daughters;
A mirror to look into
instead of their eyes,
paired with blinders.
Grandma made it for her
as she taught her to hide
what she felt
when they gave away her child.
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Dad
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My longing runs after you
who went away.
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How astronomical you become
when God is so atomic in you.
If you dared to be petite
God could contain the big bit.
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My defence mechanism has been to hold myself up
with a tight grip around my ribcage.
A grip like my dad had
when he stumped my feet on the floor,
like a cigarette
he couldn't extinguish
and I also felt others had on me
since his grip was ingrained in my body.
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When you pulled away
my heart was pulled out as well,
but you didn't bring it along with you.
It hung in the air somewhere
as if you were still shaking it loose
from my body like you used to do.
Flat as a leaf it fell from the tree
down in an empty water well
made of hearts of stone.
Sometimes a rumble behind the wall
threw me up in anxiety
so I from above could see
my life was a prison.
Was it Jesus knocking
on the other side, maybe?
To wake me up from the dead?
Too depressed to open up to people
I had no other choice than to pray;
Lift up the heavy manhole cover of pride
and crawl up through the content of my mind.
Jesus came down and told me the way out
and in pieces with heavenly influence
I got my soul back from His Father.
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My son
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A glowing lump of wax is growing in me
to a black pointed mountain spearing the ice.
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My baby is the feeling
after making love.
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You meet me with pollen
falling heavily through the sunlight
and down on the moist ground.
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Every unexpected sound
pushes forth the absence of you
and it is so empty without you here
you fill the whole world around me.
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The little, dead bird on the pavement
is as stripped of meat as I am of yours.
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I wander the streets looking for you
even though you are miles away
because there is nothing I can do to see you.
This restlessness reminds me of
my biggest heartache.
Just the sight of a frowning face
brings forth pity.
If only I had a shock absorber man
whose stomach I could lie upon
I could free my tears
that are drowning me.
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I feel your deep sorrow.
That ocean is the only thing
connecting us now.
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A crow walked outside the house hollering
as if it was proclaiming
somebody has treated you and me unfairly
and made us very unhappy.
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Mum started crying when she heard
what you had dreamt,
but I will not jump from the roof.
I don’t want to wait more than necessary
to be able to hold you again.
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Without your voice here
this house has become
a contemplative monastery.
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It is raw outside
so the best is to in your snug bed lie.
Our pet sleeps under the blanket with me
while you have to sleep with your enemy!
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To have a son
evened out the loss of my dad
as a child.
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You are so soft
you are unbreakable.
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The woman's wounds
gives blood to the child.
Suffering is the price
for the gift of love.
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When you drop me like a hat
I see my love flow
through submarine tunnels.
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If I ghost you
and you ghost me
at mums funeral
the count's a numeral three.
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When I’m dead to you,
I am barely here.
I rise and sink
with the waves of the ocean.
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At the first birth
my son was laid on my chest
which opened up far and wide
to receive him.
At fifteen when he no longer seemed to need me
and I was despised by the rest of my family
I had a calling to leave the country
and I was questioning in my flurry
if my love for him was perfunctory.
He started ghosting me while I was overseas,
whereas I thought he was busy
until my mum told me he was angry.
I would have come back in a hurry,
if I wasn't planning to marry
and bring my fiancé to my country
so it had gone 26 months already
when we met again,
but to have come back for his sake was in vain.
I cleaved to him while he pushed me away.
I was thinking I had failed him
and the love I was questioning I found
in the depths of the ocean I drowned in
as a jet stream everlasting.
I understood how selfish I had been.
Then I realised he never rejected me.
It was just time to let go of the child.
At the second birth of my son,
18 years after the first,
white light rose from the opening below
where Mary appeared with her sweet love
and thanked me for the blood sacrifice
before she swiftly disappeared into the sky
as a butterfly.
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My sister
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I wanted to delve into my sister.
She appeared to me in imagery
and then an angel in front of her.
As the vision faded away
one angel eye drew nearer.
It showed verve and adoration for me.