A Mother Poem by Miranda Lucas

A young woman, fifteen years of age.
Doing everything she can, but soon things will change.

A baby, a baby's on the way.
The people who will judge her, what will they say?
Still a child herself, what can she do?
How can she raise a child if she's one too?

A girl is born, she is now a mother.
So a naïve couple marry one another.
She holds her young and everything is okay.
The young woman must become an adult today.

Not long after she expects another.
Only eighteen and twice a mother.

Nine months later she births a son.
Elation sets in as she looks at her young.

Drugs and alcohol, what is he thinking?
She'll need a divorce if he won't quit his drinking.

The kids had a father, but they needed a dad.
She makes a promise to be the mother she never had.

Now a single mother she works for a living.
She's asked for help but no one feels like giving.

A new man comes into her life.
A father figure? He makes her his wife.

She loved this man and so she planned,
For a child. Three times a mother.
As her third and final child comes, she feels she understands.
What it means to have a family and love one another.

But what comes next.
No one would expect.

A betrayal like no other.
The children abused by her thought to be lover.

And now she's alone, again.
Three times a mother.
Dealing with everyone's opinions of her.

Three children all without fathers.
She asked for help, but was treated as a bother.

This woman raised her children alone to this day.
Loving her children in the best of ways.