Dear Mother

• Samantha Kalman, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2011

What if you cause all of her pain that makes her feel nothing.
You give your all for the best but she never shows you her wings.
What about the mess you try to clean with the holes in the rakes.
You try to save her from all your mistakes but you make her a part of the stakes.

The phone keeps screaming and you just keep the show going,
When the shadows of your then and now is never parting.
The pain of the same abandonment is given every time you just heart slam.
When the door closes on her face she feels nothing but the wham.

All you ever do is just leave us at the other side of the line.
So you can make them happy just like you say you’re trying to make fine.
All you ever do is fail and act like what you’re doing is no big fuss.
So go out there and show them you love them more than us.

She tries to stops you but you never see the signs.
You fail and all she ever gets are the fines.
She sees that you can never sleep, no wonder you’ll never fly.
You are the main source of her pain and you’ll never understand why…
By Samantha, 15
Year 10, Oakey State High School QLD