don't flaunt your mistakes as accompishments. someone always knows the truth.
Sometimes you say you've taught us well, which is why none of us are married or have children. I'd like to tell you that your teaching comes through years of emotional crippling, and we're afraid we'll turn out like you.
You say you love, but you take it away as punishment. You say you're open, but you're only ever on your own side. You say you made us independant, but you really made us struggle to support ourselves when our mother's love was shown not to be unconditional after all.
I have disapponted you, but I am not the only one who let another down.
Your disease does not allow you to see the pain you cause others.
I am no more a product of you than I am a reaction to you.
But on this night, more than any other, I see where I come from. I am the product of overwhelming love alongside an inability to truly love.
For the first time in my life, I can say it:
I forgive you.
You say you love, but you take it away as punishment. You say you're open, but you're only ever on your own side. You say you made us independant, but you really made us struggle to support ourselves when our mother's love was shown not to be unconditional after all.
I have disapponted you, but I am not the only one who let another down.
Your disease does not allow you to see the pain you cause others.
I am no more a product of you than I am a reaction to you.
But on this night, more than any other, I see where I come from. I am the product of overwhelming love alongside an inability to truly love.
For the first time in my life, I can say it:
I forgive you.