When did the party cease to be?
Fun times,
laughs,
friends with me
There came a time
I crossed a line
That line
that was to change my life
A life that was sad
when I care to admit
A child so scared who didn’t fit
Family secrets never told
Parents slowly growing old
A mother torn
and broken inside
The loss of a child
that she chose to hide
From a generation
who wouldn’t see
How real a bond
to a child can be
She chose to drown
those sorrows deep
It left me sad,
anxious,
quick to weep
She never saw the pain or hurt
I moved away,
my life to live
But genes,
I fear do stay with me
I drowned my sorrows
as she had done
It started well and often fun
She died sadly in her 70th year
It took a lot to shed a tear
There was a certain
amount of relief
That helped me battle
this mounting grief
The devils water flowed my way
He’d lured me in,
I was here to play
But the game soon became
a losing one
My tangled web
was tightly spun
I’d crossed the line
I knew it well,
stumbling under
the poison spell
No stopping at 1, 2 or 3
My secret stash topped up in time
Deceiving those who drank with me
I’m not the terrified
little girl no more
I’m living now,
I’m free for sure
I’m living my life
as I know I should
Chains are broken
and I’m over that line
Of shame and grief
of family time
They’d be proud
of the girl they left behind
She proved herself ,
she stood her ground
It’s freedom now
that drowns her mind
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