Mother, can you hear me,<BR>Can you hear thru the silence<BR>You have caused?<P>Mother, do you care still?<BR>Do you ever think of the pain<BR>You have caused?<P>I remember when<BR>I was a child<BR>It was just you and me<P>We were a team<BR>Had no one but each other<BR>We learned to survive<P>You used to dress me up<BR>Play games with me<BR>You used to hold me close<P>As I grew older <BR>I did what I could do<BR>To stick up for you...<P>Do you remember the night<BR>He was choking you and <BR>I screamed him away from you??<P>Do you remember???<P>Do you remember <BR>The times we left <BR>In the middle of the night?<P>As I struggled to become<BR>A young woman,<BR>I had so much anger inside<P>I wanted so much to be free<BR>Not unlike any girl that age<BR>But you sent me away.<P>Do you remember?<P>You let me come back,<BR>After I had learned<BR>After I had been broken<P>I believed I was nothing<BR>I had nothing<BR>You had thrown all my stuff away.<P>Again we struggled<BR>Just to survive.<BR>But this time it was you against me.<P>For years you held me down<BR>I was trapped<BR>In the cage you had made for me.<P>Now I am grown<BR>With a child of my own, Mother<BR>Do you not see?<P>No, you cannot see<BR>You have sent me away again<BR>Because you cannot control my life again.<P>He grows.<BR>It's been two months.<BR>You can never get that time back.<P>I grow.<BR>I need you.<BR>You must think it's easier to run away.<P>What do I say <BR>If you ever call again?<BR>Pretend to be your friend?<P>Pretend it doesn't HURT?<P>I want to knock you down with my rage<BR>I want you to be sorry for the tears I cried<BR>I want you to love me<BR>Like I thought you did.<P>Ok, fine.<BR>So don't call.<BR>But tell me this -<P>Who will take care of you<BR>If the cancer comes back?<P>Who do you talk to <BR>when you are sad now?<P>Who will you run to when this man your with now <BR>Turns out to be a monster, just like all the others?<P>We used to be a team, mom<BR>Now we are at war.<BR>I don't want this war.<P>I just want the person who I thought you were to come back.<P>I miss you. I love you. That will never never change. <BR>No matter how bad you hurt me.<P>I will always be here.<P>Love,<P>Your Daughter. <P>Please.<P>