Latent Learning

She watches her mother button up her coat and leave for the first job of the day

Older sister headed to work

And little brother is too young to understand the word pay

She’s only nine at the time but she understands

The effects that a single parent home has without a man

Daddy sick, but not in that sense

He disappeared and didn’t leave a cent

She prays to the Lord and ask for blessings after she repents

And knows this food on the table is heaven sent

Her tears grow smaller as she grows older

And the taller she gets the more her heart grows colder

She falls into the cycle and has a child

But she was different than her friends she wasn’t running wild

He loved her and she thought she felt the same

But the cold pain in her heart told her a different thing

She pushes his love away along with his money

He started saying “Money isn’t an object”, She just laughed like it was funny

She continues to work with her nails deep in the dirt with the same old shirt that she wiped her tears of yesterday with, along  WITH the pain AND the hurt

And with both of their income she can fulfill that Christmas list plus some

But she can do it on her own

She doesn’t need a man ,  for this

Thanks to latency, Momma helped her to understand

How to survive in the world without a man

Reviews

[Taylor Ann]

That was beautiful. Its truthful, yet depressing. It's a wonderful write.
I loved it.