~SHADOW WORLD~
Momma favored her.
I just wanted love
and needed love
but, my share was
shadowed thin.
I cried, I tried to
be sugar and spice
but always came up
short because Momma
favored her and in my
heart, oh how it hurt.
So many times I
swallowed tears
with silence my only
friend and in my
room, with crucifix,
I cried for it to end.
So cold and lonely
in her shadow, no
sun to dry my tears
and through the
years, inside myself,
another world I lived
and in that world
there were no dreams,
no love, no bright
sunbeams. Just dark
and gloom with no
birds rhyme, like
winter all the time.
I've lived so long
in my shadow world,
I don't remember
touch or joy or tender
things of such and it
hurts so very much.
Oh how I cry for
friendship true of
other than my
shadow and me.
I'm torn in two, in
tears so blue for love
of Momma too but,
here I am bitter, lost,
scared and alone
with life a shade
of blur because
Momma favored her.
© Karen Davies
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