The Silent Archive

My mom

She doesn’t call

Unless she feels like talking

Unless she needs another therapy session

Unless she finds herself wanting a confession

She tries

To make up for the past

By forming lies

So she doesn’t feel like any less

But I’m upset for being left

Alone for most of my time home

But I’m still expected

To be there when she calls

Every 2 or 3 months

When she feels another spell coming on

Here she comes

To let out what she needs

On this punching bag that she has made me to be

Anyone would go crazy

But it seems this is my place

If I want to be seen as anything

But a mistake

–Rose Hollow–