I don't know why my mom left,
Dad explained to us that mom is depressed,
Except children don't understand depressed.
Mom thinks another baby would make her better,
But dad thought that on top of raising her first son,
Four was enough,
So he went out and got a quick snip.
When mom found out,
She was very unhappy,
Eventually she stopped fighting with dad,
And stopped coming home every night.
Dad found out she was pregnant with another man's kid,
So dad filed for divorce,
Except children don't understand divorce,
And they certainly don't understand,
When mom backs the van out of the driveway,
With your brother in the back seat,
Why she wouldn't come back for six years.
(A/N This poem was prompted by a line in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.)
