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To Mother (No Child Really Needs a Mother)
by Debra Rose (Age: 21)
copyright 09-23-2002

Age Rating: 10 to 127

Dedicated to my mother, and a letter she wrote years ago that I found in a chest with other papers my dad kept saying the real reason I've been suspecting my mothers wanted me. It confirmed I've been a tool to get child support since I was born. This is for her.

I walk along the pathway
Leading down that line
Debris from where we used to play
When your smile was with mine.

And yet now with 20/20
I look back only to see
What I thought was love aplenty
Was never any there for me

For atop a pile of ruins
That's in the cavern of my heart
There lies a little letter
That tore my soul apart

My brother was all you wanted
I was just for child support
Your tender touch a cool front
So neglect I couldn't report

And yet years later I learn
From a letter folded on the bedside chest
That money you thought you earned
Would be gained through me the best

So mother, I want to thank you
For shining one light true
No child really needs a mother
I, least of all, need you.

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06-18-2003 Leon Bailey

hey Debra R. nice real nice. i feel your pain. and your frustration. even i know it is time to let go. so to your from me, feel free and have a cup of tea.

04-19-2003 Regina S.

I'm really sorry, not everyone in the world is good. A parents relation is just physical, you don't have to love them, its the friendship that counts (it too bad true friends are hard to come by though)... Anyway I love your poem, it's so tragic, Autumn is right it must have been hard to write, (I know it would have beed for me)... *sigh*

11-22-2002 Robert Betts

Been there - Done that

Generalities are usually dangerous. It is often said there is no substitute for a Mother's love. In some cases there certainly isn't - nor is there a use for it (Mother's love)...

It is a hurt that one never quite gets over. You are not alone though. My mom betrayed me many years ago. When she finally died all I could feel was, "Thank God she can no longer hurt anyone."

09-25-2002 Aaron Schmookler

THis is a well formed poem showing struggle from the start. Powerful and well done.

09-25-2002 Esther Spurrill

This is so sad... the hurt really comes through in your words... thank-you for sharing this.

09-24-2002 Dixie Kincaid

That poem was a very meaningfull poem. I hope that your life wasn't that way. An if it was stop an think you never knew it before you read the letter. So possible could she have done something right? If it's not your life whoever gave you the inspiration you wrote it beautifully. Bravo! DIXIE LEE

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To Mother (No Child Really Needs a Mother) by Debra Rose (Age: 21) copyright 09-23-2002 Age Rating: 10 to 127

To Mother (No Child Really Needs a Mother)
by Debra Rose (Age: 21)
copyright 09-23-2002

Age Rating: 10 to 127