Why

Why Oh mum, why did you abandon me? Pages of a tarnished past Like an old, dusty, and forgotten book The memory now sits on a wooden shelf Ready to fall inside my heart Oh mum, why did you forsake me? The sky a gloomy forest of clouds Hovering in an endless sea of green Hands reaching coldly on a windless night The taste of your sadness Upon my skin where you marked your love With your madness Oh mum, why am I so lost now? A swirling emptiness haunts my soul I walk these steps with nowhere to go Still wandering the corridors Of my shattered heart Oh mum, why was it so hard? To have loved me fearlessly To have carried me warmly like a soft blanket And cradled me gently like the sway Of a beautiful song Will I ever forgive you, mum? Is it possible to erase Standing here beside your grave A red rose slips through my hands On a dusky evening glow And the tears have nowhere to go, nowhere to go Aug. 2009…………….. beatriZ