Tears are running down her cheeks
As she sits listening to the rain.
She didn't speak to him for weeks,
Now all she feels is numbing pain.

He was her first child, and only son-
She tried to raise him in God's law,
Never expected him to have to shun,
Or wanted him to have this flaw.

She taught him to never tell a lie
So, when she asked him why he didn't date
He looked at his feet and began to cry.
Softly he replied, "I am not straight."

She said, "I cannot forgive you my boy,
For who you are, I can only call sin."
She could only see this as some ploy,
Not a young man, who just couldn't win.

She gave up on him and he no longer cared.
It was two weeks after that fateful night,
He became tired of fight and his emotions flared.
That's when he took his own life in one swift flight.

Now she sits all alone, stricken with grief
Knowing her angry words took his life,
Is just beyond her shallow belief.
And she waits eternally lost in her own strife.

-- Boom