Maternal Warmth of Family

You deserve better
I see the pain age your eyes
Still you choose to let her
Close enough to whisper lies

It’s deep-seated in your psyche
The hope of what could be
But experiences differ
From your idealistic dreams

Oh I know the thing for which you year
The maternal warmth of family to warm you in return

We tend to hold so tightly 
The stories of our youth
We’ve been raised to see the victims 
And spoonfed selective truth

You spend decades just unlearning
So the cycles break with you
But the gravity of bloodlines
Proves not easy to eschew

Oh I know the thing for which you yearn
The maternal warmth of family to warm you in return

Yeah I know you’re wounded in a way
That will never fully heal
You face that pain each day