She Didn'T Teach Me... Poem by Crystal Tutson

She didnt teach me how to take care of myself,
How to be a better me and how to ask for help.

She didn't teach me the fundamentals of being an only girl,
or how to distinguish myself from the others in the world.

She didn't teach me how to love from my heart and how I feel,
to forgive those who hurt me so that I can heal.

She didn't teach me how to protect myself from different men;
that giving myself to them is a carnal sin.

She didn't teach her only girl how to grow up and be a lady,
that men will say whatever to call you baby.

She didn't teach me that I could show love in another way,
instead of opening my legs, with my lips I could easily say.

Momma, why didn't you teach me the things that would help me live on;
how to smile, how to love, how to keep my head up and be strong?

I'm your only girl and I needed you then just like I need you now,
to help me teach my daughter so she would know how.

To live, to love, to grow, to show pain, and to cry,
to be all that she can be with no regrets or no sigh.

Momma, why didn't you teach me? !