The Grateful Mother …. by Michael
Image: Anastasia Elias
The mother is pleased to be turning out the light.
It’s been a long day.
Baby is demanding, for reasons unknown he cries, refuses to eat, is irritable, she hopes he will sleep tonight.
It hasn’t helped that she is doing this all alone,
He husband left her a week ago
Walked out, found a younger more agreeable woman,
A woman who expects so little, so soon,
Ideal for a husband who wanted to live a single man in a family situation.
She bears the burden of being the mother and the stigma of bitch of a wife.
That’s what she hears he is saying around town, painting her as the evil one, giving reason for justifying his decision to leave the marriage and look elsewhere.
She stands outside the bedroom, hoping her baby will settle and fall off to sleep.
There are too many nights of…
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