Trapped

April 9, 2010 at 11:26 pm (Freedom/Imprisonment) (motherhood, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Prison)

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Trapped

not by bars or bricks.

But by responsibilities

chores, needs, duties.

Everyone wants something

everyone has a demand

And their every wish somehow

becomes my command

martyr-hood in lieu of motherhood