My mother wakes me early in the morn
Before the sun peaks out for the day
Readying for work she scurries around
Our days always start this very way
Soon breakfast she will have ready for me
A kiss on the forehead she quickly gives
Watching my mother rushing like this
I have come to hate the lives that we live
Soon it will be off to school I will go
A bag lunch, books and a pat on the head
Learning what mom says I need later in life
As my minds thirst for knowledge will be fed
Mom leaves home the same time as me
Off to her place of work she must go each day
Working long hours in that office building
For what always seems too little pay
I don’t complain about the second hand clothes I wear
Or shoes with soles that are starting to run down
Because I know my mother does the best she can
As her love for me she has always openly shown
The kids pick on me cause my fashions are slow
As their time popular has certainly gone by
The names they say, fists that land, the fun they poke
Many times I sit so lonely and in emptiness I cry
Its lunch time now and alone at a table I now sit
No friends come by and sit there with me on this day
Thinking only of my mother doing the same now
With just her love I know my world will be okay
Now it is back to classes so more I can learn
I daydream about mom buried at work under a pile
Tears form in my eyes for my mother that I love
Knowing that she will be at work for a long while
Now it has come to the end of day at school
A time when other kids all go home and outside play
Me I will take the bus back to my home of emptiness
Waiting for my mother to come home I will stay
I take that key from around my neck now so slow
As into the lock I place it and give it a quick turn
Just for the life like all the other children around I see
My heavy heart of emptiness does forever yearn
Into this house of emptiness I now enter this day
No sounds of love that I want are there in the air
The events that filled my day while I was at school
With no one I love am I now able to share
I sit in silence until my homework is done
Now the television set is the only friend I have
Flipping through channels idly I now go
No attention to what they were have I really gave
I open the fridge as I get the meal set aside
That my mother had prepared with loving care
Now I sit alone at the table in silence and eat
Does the lord above really care that I am there
My meal is done and it is dark outside this night
As silence has fallen all around me as I idly wait
Soon it will be off to bed to get some sleep
The lone sound of the ticking clock says it is late
I look one last time out the window with emptiness
Wishing my mother was already home and with me
Instead of heading off to bed with a lone empty heart
This night it would be full of love and so happy be
I lay my head softly down on my pillow to sleep
Tears now flow heavy from my watery eyes as I cry
Another day of loneliness I have made it through
Releasing this pain is why water flows from my eye
Many a night a wet pillow has rested my head
As the pain inside me runs so deep from being alone
Dear lord I ask for a different life for my mother and me
So all my loneliness will from that day on be gone
Now I cuddle my worn bear that is my comfort
Waiting for the sound of my mother coming home to me
I slowly fade off into my joyful filled dreams this night
Knowing in my heart my mother soon home will be
Now I just felt her soft lips and warm good night kiss
This helps to let all of my sorrow from me now drain
But tomorrow morning I will wake once again I know
Having to face another day filled with Latchkey Pain
(C) Tall Mountain Dreamer January 23, 2008
