How Do You Deal?

How do you deal with a mother that wont touch you?
How do you deal with a mother that wont love you?
How do you deal with a mother that can only deal with certain aspects of you life?
How do you deal with a mother who sees with her eyes but can never see the big picture?

How do you deal?

I've seen kids that grew up in a single parent home turn into the worse people in the world.
Statisically speaking the odds were against them anyway.
But I have seen most strive for perfection.
And still have dedication
To this day.

How would you deal?

My mother has gone through so much in life.
From her mother dieing in late December
To being molested by a family member
And yet she's still a contender

Busting throught the statisics of becoming a petifile.
And yet she's still in denile.
The thought burning through her mind
That in time she may become a defile
Statistics are blind
How can they draw a line so fine
To define
One who is mine...

But through it all 4 kids she raised

As a child I sustained
As a teenager I complained
Only to place the blame
On a misdirected shame
Now as an adult I revert
As an Introvert
I let this pin and pad
Create my fad

So answer the question

How do you deal with a mother that wont touch you?
Understand
How do you deal with a mother that wont love you?
Love her
How do you deal with a mother that can only deal with certain aspects of you life?
Help her deal
How do you deal with a mother who sees with her eyes but can never see the big picture?
Frame it

It would be a cliche
To say
Be all you can be
Then you'll see
To be true to you
Thats all you can truely do.

So, how do you deal?
When you've had your fill?
You can will and deal
Till you've become light headed
But that day you have dreaded
Will come
To this sum
From devistaion
And frustration
From a zero
To my hero
And one way or another
She's my mother

Reviews

[Xeru]

You know I love you right? Not in relation to the poem but your strength and self awareness is amazing. I was sitting at me laptop and I came to a realization man. Everything that is physical came from something spiritual. Even the pain the physical inflicts. So with that thought... We are who we are and we are who we are going to be regardless of circumstances. There are alot of God's children in this place we call earth or aka hell jr. I believe the strength that some of us carry is supposed to spread to those who lack that level of self inspiration. And you my friend... Represent all of that in its most beautiful way. Yeah alot of us dont make it... But alot of us do... And watching the ones that do is what makes our time here so beautiful. No so much ones that have always had it easy. But the ones that were never able to drop their sword. And to me thats what this piece represents. The Armor Bearer. You are beautiful.

[The Elder Pine]

Yes they will always be our mothers, but should we forgive them just because they are? Sometimes flesh and blood obliterates even the most sacred boundaries in this life and they creat the masterpiece of disaster that you depict in your piece, something along the lines of myself and my two sisters. My mother birthed my but did not raise me, but rather used me as a tool and played me for a fool as she spun her games and wove her lies. I must say respectfully that I for one will not forgive my mother or any other that puts their child through utter and complete hell.

On another note I love you writing style, almost like performance poetry and a bit like a rap, it's appealing.

Well done


"How do you deal with a mother that wont touch you?
How do you deal with a mother that wont love you?
How do you deal with a mother that can only deal with certain aspects of you life?
How do you deal with a mother who sees with her eyes but can never see the big picture?

How do you deal?

I've seen kids that grew up in a single parent home turn into the worse people in the world.
Statisically speaking the odds were against them anyway.
But I have seen most strive for perfection.
And still have dedication
To this day.

How would you deal?

My mother has gone through so much in life.
From her mother dieing in late December
To being molested by a family member
And yet she's still a contender

Busting throught the statisics of becoming a petifile.
And yet she's still in denile.
The thought burning through her mind
That in time she may become a defile
Statistics are blind
How can they draw a line so fine
To define
One who is mine...

But through it all 4 kids she raised

As a child I sustained
As a teenager I complained
Only to place the blame
On a misdirected shame
Now as an adult I revert
As an Introvert
I let this pin and pad
Create my fad

So answer the question

How do you deal with a mother that wont touch you?
Understand
How do you deal with a mother that wont love you?
Love her
How do you deal with a mother that can only deal with certain aspects of you life?
Help her deal
How do you deal with a mother who sees with her eyes but can never see the big picture?
Frame it

It would be a cliche
To say
Be all you can be
Then you'll see
To be true to you
Thats all you can truely do.

So, how do you deal?
When you've had your fill?
You can will and deal
Till you've become light headed
But that day you have dreaded
Will come
To this sum
From devistaion
And frustration
From a zero
To my hero
And one way or another
She's my mother"

[Badmac (Brenda )]

No matter what.
they will always be your mom!

[Alpha]

That is absolutely beautiful! Beautiful. So simple, and true.

You describe love that's deeper than any discontent, bitterness or lack of appreciation. She's your mother. That's the simple truth. An unconditional love.

Beautiful. Today I will love.

[X Y]

whoa... you have a simplicity that comes thru so powerful. you know how to build momentum. i may have said this before since this is not the first time i've read something from you and had this same reaction. i just haven't checked your stuff in a few months. you have a few misspellings...like pedophile and denial. also, "How do you deal with a mother that can only deal with certain aspects of you life?
Help her deal " should be "your life".
this is excellent. where do i give the kudos?

[Thug Life]

damn! this 1 was... leavin me wit my jaw dropped a lil bit.. u put it alll out thurr let us into ur life. which im sure is hard. but i loved the way u flowed thru this.. almost seemed a lil angry jabbin at society bout how u really can make it even if it is against all odds.. i love it!!! and if i was a bettin man.. i'd put my money down on u