Battery

...unending cycle...

Life-draining
unrelenting
Contentious
emotional hijacking

Of the worst sort
Every word met with a snarky retort

Everyone tells me to give up on you
Eventually I know that I will have to

Another night and another police record number
One more step closer to leaving you in the gutter

My face hurts from your most recent assault
Responsibility is yours and yet in me I seek to find fault

Tears fill my eyes and spill down my face
My mistakes as your mother I wish I could erase

Even still it's been proven that I always did my best
Though I'll never be able to lay my guilt to rest

Sweet baby boy grown into an abusive young man
I have lost the ability as your advocate to stand

For years now I've sought to right any wrong
Hoping and praying that you'd grow respectfully strong

Do you want to press charges I was once again asked
So many times now that I have lost track

I keep trying to give you just one more chance
Only 381 more days to survive this tragic life-threatening dance

Reviews

[ron]

It's sad when your child abuses the parent when all the parent did was try. And even love for the child was not enough.

[FlamingPhoenix]

Indeed. Thank you for your review!

[ron]

You are most welcome.