The monster pounds the gates
Just one sip gives release
I abstain
Keep the lock bolted
I abstain
Keep myself whole
***
My soul shatters into pieces
I try to gather them good as new
Shards of humanity cut my skin
Signs of what I’ve done bleed
I desperately try to put it back as it was
Always a piece of me lost
Never who I used to be found
Before I picked up this habit
That will surely break me again
***
A mother’s love is unconditional
This, I think makes her weak
She sleeps destined to love me
I wake with secrets of my unrest
Promises of tomorrow never come today
A mother’s love knows no boundaries
Even when it’s split by cell doors
My call, a sign of trouble
She answers to spread hope
Her best efforts against my worst
mistakes, mistakes, mistakes
A mother’s love won’t give up
Even if I beg, even if I scream
She says nothing prayer can’t fix
How can one woman be so certain
When life says hell no
And who the fuck does God think
He is
To give me a mother’s love
A pendulum of mercy
Never stops, never tires
Just waits
For me to come home
One day, I promise it’ll be me
Who comes
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