Burden

You were sixteen, I was a six pound baby

I loved you the moment I saw you,

you hated the sight of me

My small fingers tried to wrap around yours

but you pushed me away

The nurse held me while you cried

She took me away to make you stop

You were nineteen, I was three

I cried hungry, but you ignored me

I tried to sit in your lap

but you pushed me away

I sat in a corner and cried

you locked yourself in your room

You were twenty one, I was five

I cried when he touched me

but you ignored me

I tried to tell you how he hurt me

but you pushed me away

I locked myself in my room

But I was never safe again

You were thirty, I was fourteen

You walked in and saw me on the floor

An empty bottle of pills lay next to me

Bruises over my body where he used me

was all that was left of my lifeless body

You walk out of the room

shutting the door behind you

Was it that easy to let me go?

Did you care when you saw me

without a breath left inside?

Was I the evil one

who caused you nothing but pain?

You are free now, I am gone

You are my mother,

I am no longer your burden