M's Poetry
1981
I must have been so tiny lying there
helpless and whining, didn't know how cruel
the world could be then
did you ever hold me and love me?
did you sing lullabies to make it okay?
the day you walked out did you ever look back my way?
I laid there with tubes hooked up to me
because I could barely breath
was it my condition that scared you
or was there another possibility?
Could you not stop in your tracks and come back?
I guess it was that easy to leave a life you helped make
1981 was the year I was born
but now yes now is the year I realize
freedom was your prize, no responsibility
only wanting credit for someone you never raised
had good intentions to love
but never quite did....my heart still hurts but I will live
1981 the year you had me and left me all at the same time
I have tried to protect you cuz I thought if I did
you would really love me and be that parent I desperately needed
but I don't want that someone....I know and you know now
you are still that same person you was in 1981.
2004@ Copyright by Megan Bishop
helpless and whining, didn't know how cruel
the world could be then
did you ever hold me and love me?
did you sing lullabies to make it okay?
the day you walked out did you ever look back my way?
I laid there with tubes hooked up to me
because I could barely breath
was it my condition that scared you
or was there another possibility?
Could you not stop in your tracks and come back?
I guess it was that easy to leave a life you helped make
1981 was the year I was born
but now yes now is the year I realize
freedom was your prize, no responsibility
only wanting credit for someone you never raised
had good intentions to love
but never quite did....my heart still hurts but I will live
1981 the year you had me and left me all at the same time
I have tried to protect you cuz I thought if I did
you would really love me and be that parent I desperately needed
but I don't want that someone....I know and you know now
you are still that same person you was in 1981.
2004@ Copyright by Megan Bishop
