Dear Mom, <br />I don't know what would make you happy <br />To let go of who i am and give you a better me <br />To make my flaws vanish in a second just for your reasons <br />And hide my mistakes, trying to be a perfect person <br />How you kill me with your degrading words <br />With anxiety and fear i give up, putting myself backwards <br />Why aren't i good enough? <br />Isn't me that you love? <br />Now i search for a place of acceptance, of comfort a place where i feel safe enough to be me <br />Creating my own world, my reality <br />Just to escape you and your standards of 'THE PERFECT', not the good <br />How you make me hate myself In your laws of motherhood <br />Please mom, just tell me it's 'ME' that you love <br />Even if am not everything you wish i was<br /><br />janice etienne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dear-mom-7/
