I Lost My Dad When I Was 12, But My Mom Died, Too

I lost my dad when I was 12

But my mom died too

She’s still here on earth

But I can’t get through

He was the one that kept her stable

Like good men do

Starting to feel like home

At the MHU

You see my mom found love

In the swing of a fist

But my dad, he was gentle

Never made that list

She was lost when he left

Felt like she was abandoned

Me and my brothers we were kids

And I didn’t understand it

How I just lost the man

Whose blood runs through my veins

But she didn’t care to see

That we were all in pain

Now I’m grown

Tryin to learn how to parent my own mother

And love the woman who became

A pathological liar

See I’m trying my hardest

Not to hold it against her

If the doctors just believed me

Maybe she would be better

Because the woman that I see

Spiraling in front of me

Isn’t the mom who encouraged me

To follow my dreams

It’s hard knowing that

I’m just simply chasing time

But maybe someone might listen

When they hear this rhyme

I lost my dad when I was 12

But my mom died too

She’s still here on earth

But I can’t get through