I got the title from the first and last lines combined.
It's about my idol who helps me through everything and unknowingly helped this past year.
The line about mothers is about her being a mother, but not mine, but like a mother to me. Yesterday means last year. That is about all that needs explaining, I think, or that I want to explain.
22 May 2006
Bad Dream, and a poem with lots of symbolism (for me at least)
Bad Dream
dad announces he is going to iraq
mum tells me on the phone
we'll be fine, he said, mum explains,
he says i feed the baby well
that's why he accepted
what baby? i am too afraid to ask
how much have i missed in only three weeks
thank God it was a dream
but why did it seem so real
how did i reason why?
how did i survive yesterday?
a sideways glance,
an utterance of intolerance -
would you have been proud of me,
standing by
while being mortified?
hoping, wishing
maybe - it is just a phase -
this is just the same.
looking through a mother's eyes -
not my mother, just a -
how does this reside?
do you feel the power you hold
as stories of past years unfold
my hidden strength has multiplied
and you my dear are reason why.
dad announces he is going to iraq
mum tells me on the phone
we'll be fine, he said, mum explains,
he says i feed the baby well
that's why he accepted
what baby? i am too afraid to ask
how much have i missed in only three weeks
thank God it was a dream
but why did it seem so real
how did i reason why?
how did i survive yesterday?
a sideways glance,
an utterance of intolerance -
would you have been proud of me,
standing by
while being mortified?
hoping, wishing
maybe - it is just a phase -
this is just the same.
looking through a mother's eyes -
not my mother, just a -
how does this reside?
do you feel the power you hold
as stories of past years unfold
my hidden strength has multiplied
and you my dear are reason why.
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