This is Where She Put Her Dreams

This is where she put her dreams.
This woman knows an empty room
a dusty dresser
a closed door.
this is where she put her dreams

A baby crying
a little kid biking
and a teenager blaring
her music
too loud, too loud.
this is where she put her dreams

The door is closed
the cobwebs are growing
bigger, bigger
until they coat her memories.
this is where she put her dreams

She remembered
the worst of days
like they were the best
and the best of days
make her cry.
her daughter laughing
at her older brother
her daughter crying
in her arms.
this is where she put her dreams

This woman knows an empty room
and folded clothes
a dirty sock still sits
under her bed
and the shoes are piled hastily
in the little closet.
This is where she put her dreams.

This woman knows
grief counseling
food sitting on on her doorstep
empty apologies from her friends
and whispered rumors behind her back
About where she put her dreams.

This woman knows
pain
and wondering
what did I ever do wrong?
She saw a girl smiling
a girl dying
but she couldn't have known.
This woman doesn't know why.

What ever happened to her daughter's dreams'?