as you gazed in the mirror?

Perfumed and painted for your nights on the town?

Who did you see when you looked at your child

and told her you hated the moment of her birth?

which demon lurked in the recesses of your mind

to haunt you this way?

Who were you striking when you beat her....

a tiny child

who loved you?

What shriveled your cold cold heart so...

that you could not see

the face of love and longing

That hungering little heart

gazing back at you

Did you drink so deeply of the bitterness in life

your mind embracing the pain

that you denied yourself

the love

your child tried giving you so freely

You tried creating another you..

a creature of anger and hate

Barren of love and compassion

Guess again...

You failed..