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