Dear Mama

• Alexia Francois, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2016

She’ll just pour it all out and say her life isn’t grand,
Hoping her mama can hear her in heaven, she thinks, “I’m not as strong as you think I am”,
People try help her but they don’t understand,
She wanted you to live but you had different plans

Nuclear wars, poverty and greedy people, if they keep going like this the world won’t have a sequel,
She feels stupid for being scared of something that doesn’t seem lethal,
But the media doesn’t hide the fact that Earth’s not peaceful

She’s asking, “Why’d you go?” she still needs your guidance and support,
All she feels is regret when remembering those times that you fought,
Pleading for you to be her angel because her hope is falling short

She’ll try make you proud you’ll be what she lives for, her heart beats for you and she’ll try to be more,
She’ll rise up like a bird and she’ll sore, as your last words affects her like a downpour

Hoping it’s not too late to tell you, as she pores out her emotion of what’s true,
She doesn’t want you thinking she won’t think about you, so just know that she wrote this about you.

~I love you Mama~