Just For You, Mum

• Lara Geri, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2010

I fought for you, I lied for you,
I stole for you, I cried for you.

Now just as you and I were moving close,
we are torn apart by an unbeatable force;
death has taken your life from me
and left my life a catastrophy.

A mother and a daughter, we should never have been parted,
bu the fact still remains that your life has ended.
The tears I shed-and still shed-are for you
and I know in my heart there's nothing more I can do.

So now I lay, without mum or dad
contemplating suicide, or my life forever sad.
I wish, one wish, if I may
to have with you, just one more day

I tried for you, I'm lost without you,
I'd die for you and I'll never forget you.