Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother do you think they'll like this song?
Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Mother should I build the wall?
Mother should I run for president?
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Mother am I really dying?
Hush now baby, baby, dont you cry.
Mother's gonna make all your nightmares come true.
Mother's gonna put all her fears into you.
Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.
Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,Of course mama'll help to build the wall.
Mother do you think she's good enough -- to me?
Mother do you think she's dangerous -- to me?
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Mother will she break my heart?
Hush now baby, baby dont you cry.
Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.
Mama's gonna wait up until you get in.
Mama will always find out where you've been.
Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,You'll always be baby to me.
Mother, did it need to be so high?
Mother (Pink Floyd)
Only in this case its not the mother.
The weekend wasnt as expected, but then I guess my entire life has been that way. En route to IIT called the kid up to say we were on our way but she said she was busy. No she didnt even have the 5 minutes I was asking for. Period.
Now he wants to take - and has taken - my kids 'educational well being' in his hands. That simply translates into the kid being terrorized simply because 3 isnt what 2+2 adds upto.
The spirit has to be broken. A free dignified spirit has to be taught how to live properly ( obey promptly). The kid has the audacity to question - not follow blindly, love - not hate indiscriminately..What gall.
'The kid has to be taught to respond- nay jump at the flick of a finger, otherwise God knows what evil may fall on the kid in some emergency' and all because the kid aint good at following orders to the T. And if - God forbid - something happens to the kid sometime IT WOULD ALL BE MY FAULT - simply because I shield the kid too much.
The problem is that I am beyond repair, but the kid can be broken and reshaped many times over right?
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Good poem. Sounds tough. I can relate to the kid being broken and reshaped.
ReplyDeleteYes, greenpanda, we all expect the kids to be malleable and have no identity of their own. Its sad.
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the song. Its from my fave band Pink Floyd.
"...IT WOULD ALL BE MY FAULT - simply because I shield the kid too much.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that I am beyond repair, but the kid can be broken and reshaped many times over right?"
Wrong...any responsibility for abuse is on the soul of the one doing the abusing, not the recipient.
Sounds to me like a man headed towards an eventual solitary room where he will receive his wish of dieing alone and forgotten.