'What Have You Given Me? ' Poem by Linda Winchell

What did you say you've given me?
When you've taken most of me away.

What is it that you're saying now dear?
What did my ears just hear you say?

Was it just a feeling of guilt you had?
When you gave your heart to me?

Because I carried another part of you inside,
Or were you just feeling sorry for me?

I thought you loved your child and me,
When you married me on that day.

This seems now all a joke to you,
But how can this all be?
The years I gave were all I could have gained,
They were those better parts of me.

Your now trying to cloud our child's mind,
And ruin the family name.
Remember dear you gave it to me,
So it will cause you too some shame.

Stop and think of what you're doing,
Before you walk out that door.
I was a wife and I gave you all my life,
Now our child has to pay the score.