Mum Was a Rollercoaster – Written May 2023 (Aged 48)

Mum Was a Rollercoaster

mum was emotional
and mum was a rollercoaster
and we all clung on
up and down,
round and round those emotions went
and we all clung on
that is how she was
effervescent,
all emotion and all sparkles
and we all clung on
she climbed to the very top
but another inappropriate relationship –
always came and did the loop the loop
mum was an emotional rollercoaster
and we all clung on
and it is only now,
when i look back and i think back –
i realise how much we were all affected
and how much it shaped and dominated our lives
i loved her though,
unconditionally, i loved her
even when all of it was too much
mum was an emotional rollercoaster
and i miss her, her voice, her presence, her love




James Garratt – May 2023


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