Come Back Home Poem by Lily Jacobsen

I know a woman who is breaking, breaking from the inside out. This woman has two children, a young woman, and a little boy. She cares for these kids but she never has time for them. Instead of spending time with them she is out buying and doing drugs. She missed a very important day of the young woman's life. She missed her graduation from an academy. The little boy is always confused about why his mommy is so distant, why she acts like she doesn't care, why she's warm one minute and the next she's cold. The little boy was in a home that barely had food and only had the heat on in one room. The young woman had enough one day and spoke up about it and the mother wasn't happy about it so she hit the girl. With the girl on the ground, she said ‘You have no idea how long I've wanted to do that" All the little boy wants is for his mommy not to be sick anymore. All the young woman wants is for her mother to come back. The mother that cared for them, the mother who took care of them.

That young woman is me and the mother is my mother...