TRUTH: YOU BECOME YOUR MOTHER, OR YOU DON'T.
33 years old and she's battleing the internal fight
all these years
and he wasn't even the name on the paper
typed in black and white
she saw a different name
thinking nothing would change
and now she's been on her own
18 and life to go
a birth certificate means nothing
when neither step up to show
the way a man should treat a lady
thanking God she doesn't have to raise a baby
because no name on a paper could change
the lie she'd lived in
her entire life
continuing to this day.
Her mother's not around,
she stays with the next man
who can hold her down
so she doesn't have to deal
with a life from a life from her daughter
she thought she had to conceal.
A dose of her mother's medicine
leads down a very lonely road in
wishing she knew
how to mend their relationship
and finally have some peace inside.