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mom

mom:
I like to ask the old timers to dance
Then listen to their laughter when they take my hand, and put one of theirs around my waist
They say they haven’t had a young lady approach them since they were young
Maybe about 1943, and I say I couldn’t imagine anything better
Then right now than dancing with you… I like to, I like to,
Pick flowers on the rail road tracks and put them in my hair
I like to lie on the rails and feel the coldness of the steal and stare up at the sky
Remembering the feel of your cold face when you died
And how you looked then, like you were finally at peace
I like to pretend now that you love me and mom you smile at me, and say you’re proud of me
I like to walk up to strangers, and ask them questions about their life, and learn how someone else feels
All my kids’ friends come to my house and just hang out so they have a place to go I know that is safe
They tell me they I wish I was there mom and then I start to think of how
I like to pretend now, that you love me and mom you smile at me, and say you’re proud of me
I watch my kids and I pray
Let them know I love them each and every one of my lonely days, let them feel inside themselves
How devoted I am and that nothing in life would change how I feel and how I would kill and how I will
Always be here for them
Not like the way you were with me
I like to race the old lady’s at Walmart and drink coffee with the retired groups at McDonalds
I like to listen to all their advice, I like to be around all I didn’t have because I get to pretend for a while,
That you love me and mom you smile at me, and say you’re proud of me
I pretend you love me mom, I pretend your proud of me now, I pretend you smile mom, I pretend
By Seascape
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