Lisa

My life has gone downhill
Into the very drain
My loved ones I thought I knew
The cause of all my pain.

The questions that run through my head
When I meet this new friend
Will she be more my pain
Will she be my end?

Little by little do I
Open up to this older girl
A person so much like me
Begins to unfurl

True she's older be nine years
But the things she has gone through
Are so similar to my problems
And my triumphs too.

Her parents also did not care
Relationships gone sickeningly wrong,
The mistake child we were both
The burden many years along.

This girl, this woman I met
Seems to know me inside out
She was me once a while back
Traveling the same life route.

She is my guide and my friend
She is the mom I've waited so long for
Slowly she helps me out of my cocoon
She is the mom that I adore.

I have new friends
They come and go
But Lisa stays
Will she ever leave?
NO.