A young woman, fifteen years of age. <br />Doing everything she can, but soon things will change. <br /> <br />A baby, a baby's on the way. <br />The people who will judge her, what will they say? <br />Still a child herself, what can she do? <br />How can she raise a child if she's one too? <br /> <br />A girl is born, she is now a mother. <br />So a naïve couple marry one another. <br />She holds her young and everything is okay. <br />The young woman must become an adult today. <br /> <br />Not long after she expects another. <br />Only eighteen and twice a mother. <br /> <br />Nine months later she births a son. <br />Elation sets in as she looks at her young. <br /> <br />Drugs and alcohol, what is he thinking? <br />She'll need a divorce if he won't quit his drinking. <br /> <br />The kids had a father, but they needed a dad. <br />She makes a promise to be the mother she never had. <br /> <br />Now a single mother she works for a living. <br />She's asked for help but no one feels like giving. <br /> <br />A new man comes into her life. <br />A father figure? He makes her his wife. <br /> <br />She loved this man and so she planned, <br />For a child. Three times a mother. <br />As her third and final child comes, she feels she understands. <br />What it means to have a family and love one another. <br /> <br />But what comes next. <br />No one would expect. <br /> <br />A betrayal like no other. <br />The children abused by her thought to be lover. <br /> <br />And now she's alone, again. <br />Three times a mother. <br />Dealing with everyone's opinions of her. <br /> <br />Three children all without fathers. <br />She asked for help, but was treated as a bother. <br /> <br />This woman raised her children alone to this day. <br />Loving her children in the best of ways.<br /><br />Miranda Lucas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-mother-35/
