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Lyric:
Of hearts in life there were never many
They came then went much like bad pennies
I gave up the effort around age twenty
Well I say it, then in three years… progeny
His names would change, he acted so strange
He’d often derange, claiming the world to arrange
As for me, there was never any rest in sight
Raise my child while trying to keep him upright
Of course it fell apart, as usually it does do
On my own again, but not quite cause now there’s two
So many years gone from me, just blurs of time remain
Disassociated identities running rife in my brain
Little Star had twelve mommies, though not much for gain
It pains me to remember that on her, it too, was a strain
Double and triple shifts were my life’s rote decrees
Beat the wolves from the door again, success by degrees
Her smile, always worth it, image in my heart, deep frieze
Never enough, despair, life always stalking set to seize
But we were getting good at more than to just survive
Of course, the economic bubble bursts and the wolves revive
Lose the job, lose the house, lose the furnishings, too
Lose all hope, it’s such a joke, still see her in rear-view
The road is hard and unforgiving, no kindness to humans due
I’ve been on, by, sometimes under, as life dispensed its clue
By the time I crawled ashore and could set my charts for home
Her mind was set, the doorway shut, the world now hers to roam
The standard and bar set was always too high for me
I spend decades with regret but now choose to let it be
She’s grown and moved on, wants nothing more but be free
I am her mom, so I’ll do my best, even in this, you see
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