I reminded her she was not around <br />when we were small, yet yesterday <br />before I’d even arrived to say goodbye <br />she’d already gone <br /> <br />She never does it on purpose Mother says, <br />she’s popular but her orchestrated absence <br />proves the converse - going back all those <br />years nothing’s changed, <br /> <br />What made me think she’d wait to say <br />goodbye? Was I foolish thinking she might <br />care enough to be at home, a sign <br />of real feeling, but she scorns family <br /> <br />The message is she doesn’t give a damn, <br />my lecture on spurned children was <br />meant to make her play “caring mother” – <br />I was wrong, she could not be bothered <br /> <br />Long-distance trips with friends is priority, <br />yet she complains grandchildren do not visit, <br />why should they when she so obviously <br />doesn’t care about them <br /> <br />I do not wish my kids to feel unwanted by <br />her lack of feeling; yet the same woman <br />immorally rejected grandma Alice while <br />asking her to serve in all emergencies <br /> <br />She brought dad inebriated to see Nici just <br />three weeks old, he insulted her and me, I was <br />ill with shock, mother claimed she did not know <br />he drank though Grandma Alice warned her well <br /> <br />With “religious” friends support she claims she <br />plays a martyr’s role as her family rejects her <br />I wonder why WE are evil, starting with her own <br />mother, grandma Alice, dad and five children...<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/2010-06-21-five-children/
