• I’m acknowledging your absence
    Because you’re not gone quite yet
    But once you board that silver plane
    You’ll sink further into debt

    You claim to regret leaving me
    The first time, second and third,
    Yet you plan to leave once again
    As if your remorse never occurred

    Stop lying to me, mother,
    I never believe you
    When you say you don’t know what is right
    You say you don’t know what to do

    How can this be the right thing?
    Even in your demented mind?
    Why are you going to your boyfriend
    And leaving me behind?

    But I’ve forgiven you already
    Like I did when I was nine
    Though I haven’t thought of you the same
    Since you committed your first crime

    So please just go already
    I’m angry at you now
    Don’t hug me at the airport
    Affection won’t be allowed