i am not here to rescue you
to be your cradling arms
i do not live to feed you
to make you whole

when i'd come back,
you'd say i'd changed...i was spoiled
i was spoiled, no, i was a child

to you
i am a game
a little doll to play with
'cry' 'laugh' 'play'
it was always the way...

but when you say laugh
and i cry
you hate
and i don't understand

remember how it hurt then
in that time of emptiness and nothing
when i cried and you hated
and i just kept crying...

sobbing and choking
all on the secrets hiding in my bed
you looked at them, right through me
they went
but they're coming back again

i'm sorry, but i just can't stop
i'm sorry, but i just can't smile
i'm sorry that i'm a misfit in the mess of dollies and snow globes...
that i fit in with the empty boxes

and on those days when you just can't smile
when you just can't laugh...i won't ask you to stop
when your liquid cure appears just briefly
just long enough for you to hide your sadness
i will forgive you
forgive your sad eyes
and all that you say...

but i cannot be your mother.
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