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Mom and Dad

January 3, 2023
By riley13 PLATINUM, Boca Raton, Florida
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Coaxed out of the closest, how do you feel?

Like changing your mind after you already jumped

Exposed and shaking, listening to the whispers being screamed across a broken home


Gathering at the wake for someone made up

Walking like a ghost, talking like a child

Knuckles turning white, begging on bloodied knees


“I don't even know you anymore,” 

They say while eulogizing the picture perfect postcard

While I get slowly killed by values too deep to uproot


So I sit in the hurt, too tired to fight

Watching you close your eyes in disappointment

Wishing you would come wipe my tears and hold my hand

Photo by Varun Gaba on Unsplash

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