Dear Mother

What is motherhood to me? It is the air I breathe. The day I became a mother; my life had a purpose. I made my daughter a promise that day. I would do my best to be a good mother, to love and protect her no matter what the future holds for all of us.
Growing up my mother and I never agreed on anything in life. I felt she was careless and uncaring towards me. Once my daughter was born, I sat my mother down and told her everything. I was open about my trauma and abuse by other and herself. I took the time to try and explain to her my behavior growing up, because I was an angry hateful teenager. She looked at me and told me she suspected my abuse all along. Instead of being able to heal that day my life was shattered, because I had to truly face how little she really cared.
In this book is all of my poetry I have written in attempt to accept and heal from a damaged, unrepairable mother/daughter relationship.