I heard my mothers screams
Never come back, she said
and I never did
For all I needed was Callisto
You told me she did not exist
But you were blind to belief
All because you didn't see things that I did,
Like I did
You don't see her , but I do
Her long sating black hair hanging to her knees
Her porecilan doll skin
He cracked beauty
She completed me in a way you couldn't
You told me I was crazy
Therapists telling me I fell off the cliff of schizophrenic
But she comforted me, Mother.
She comforted me when you turned your back.
When you coughed out threats with a mouth of Mary Jane
and drowned yourself in your own self-pity
You said that I was a mistake
But Callisto said that I was meant to happen,
because evrything happens for a reason
And when you got drunk and came home angry
when you abused me with your stone heart in play,
She was there
She tended the wounds, healed the bruises you left on me
She filled the holes you tore in my heart
So how dare you tell me she is not real?
That she is a lie in the face of reality,
when the only lie I've ever heard was you telling me you loved me!
How long was that, mother?
Wasn't I 4?
How old am I now mother?
Yeah! I'm 15!
Callisto celebrated my birthday,
When all you did is get a bottle of booze and get lost
When the only thing you wished to lose was me
You said I was fucking crazy, but
Crazy
is not thinking outside the box
Crazy
is the denial of anothers truth
Crazy
is thinking you're always right
Crazy
is tying yourself to your own emotions
I can go on forever about what kind of mother you were to me
Those sober moments with nothing but a belt in your hand,
whipping your five year old daughter until she bleeds
Just a fucking five year old
But you never cared about anyones opinion but your own
But most of all you abused me for mine
You took those pills
like the way you stole the candy from your own god damn baby
And you starved me while you basked in your own reality
You didn't love me, mother
You called me a fucking freak
A freak because I had a different opinion than yours
A freak because I told you you were wrong
A freak because I opened my mind to the possibility
that there might be another world out there
a world for someone like me
A freak because I had Callisto
When you didn't care when I suffered,
She did.
When you didn't care about my scars,
She told me of a better future
She inspired me, mother
but what about you?
You hit me whenever I cried
You and yourself alone were a fucking mistake
I bet even now, you are binging and watching sitcoms
and playing hard with the hookers across the street
And even though I hate you and I haven't seen you for years now,
I still wonder about you mother
And I still wonder if you ever think about me.
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Mixed Thoughts
PoesieSometimes what goes on in your head is too much to keep inside