So I've just started writing poetry again, I've always been good at it (I think) and I find it helps me cope a lot.
Tiny bit of context, my mental health is a train wreck, and my daughters live primarily with their daddy but we both see them a lot and we get on very well!
Anyway, enough rambling.. here are my words.
All thoughts/ criticism welcome 🙂
Parent-
Sometimes I feel like I’m doing this all wrong!
I know, you’d think I’d have it mastered after this long.
There’s times I hide away and cry and wonder why no one told me about this part,
Where all the people warning me that it was actually going to be this hard?
I love them so much and I know they love me too,
But when you feel like they’re happier without you, what do you do?
And I know I can’t blame them.. it’s not hard to see why,
How they ask for somebody else when they cry.
I try to tell myself this isn’t all true,
Don’t take it personally.. it can’t all be you! I can reason and see why some of this makes sense,
It just doesn’t make this awful belief any less intense.