I’m avoidant I get it from my mum
She dreams of running away
From lovers who turn dangerously
And a life she can’t escape
She sighs to me about strangers on the internet
And spies who follow us around
I’m melancholic I get it from my mum
She sits in her room and hides in her covers
Dreams of a world where you she doesn’t work
She cooks our dinners of chicken and lettuce
She would’ve lived in a studio apartment
I’m always angry I get it from my mum
She wakes up raging, on the wrong side of the bed
She catches dust and yells about cleanliness
Perfection is an endless pursuit
We will never meet her ideal child because the scores always changing
I’m always hungry I get it from my mum
Food is for energy, nothing more or less
Diets don’t exist only an infinite chase for skinny
Your body is a vessel that you’ll leave once you die
No point learning to love it in this lifetime
I’m mean and I could say I get it from my mum, but I know I don’t
Her remarks are sometimes snarky and sharp
But her words are laced in love
Every habit is disgusting
Every sentence out of bounds
You will never match her image
She loves me but doesn’t “like” me
She wishes I never leave but can’t stand me around me long
Is that comment it out of love or a deep hatred for your birth?
I’m loving I get it from her
Every young child is her “baby”
She sees herself in every young mother
Her kindness is abundant in a way that mine just isn’t
My mother and I, we are different
Our songs are at different keys
And our Hearts are on a staircase
If my mother is red then I am purple
I am far from her but if you look close you can see her in me
We are close like Sunday to Monday but far like Monday to Sunday
We fit like two puzzles made from the same pattern but not the same image
Or maybe I say that because she is my mother
We are connected through blood and the water from her womb
I do not understand her, maybe I don’t want to
A butterfly doesn’t dream of being a caterpillar?
A duck loves it’s mothers only for a short time
I yearn to know my mother like an apple yearns for its tree
And maybe this lack of understanding