My nest is empty
my chicks have flown away.
My heart is breaking
how far will they stray.
I have to say these past few years,
were nothing like I had hoped.
Instead of beng best friends
they ignore you, communication's curtailed.
They can say the most hateful things,
everyone assures me it's a temporary thing.
But you can't prove it by me,
I can't get past the mad moods.
Now I'm not perfect, never claimed to be,
but I think I deserve better commin to me.
I dedicated my life to them,
and what do I get in return.
Sour faces and public condemnations,
always ignoring me.
I see the old you when you're with your friends
don't understand what I have to do to make amends.
Sure I've exaggerated but not by much.
I feel like they don't respect me,
and I can already see
that a son's a son till he takes a wife
a daughters a daughter all of her life.
I was a good mother,
of that I am sure.
So slowly and quietly,
they may come around.
I only hope that I'm here and not in the ground.
HAVE DAUGHTERS