Your words raze my esteem

The constant affronts and tirades 

Break my heart 

You make jokes about my pain

As if you are not the one that brought me into this world 

But I keep running back to you

You always leave me in tears

You leave me demented

As you raise self-hatred in me

But still, I let you back in

I still open up to you 

For the sweetness of your voice 

As you apologise 

Makes me forget 

Forget all you have done countlessly

And the fact that you are my parent