Poem

I didn't want to leave you But I did anyway I didn't know it would be like this Too much to find out Too late As the years roll by All the voices yet only one I still hear. Did I do what I should?* Did I make it as far as I could? I look but you don't see I pretend I haven't, hadn't, won't. But I do. I go back inside Where I'm free to see and look And dream of a face* That's sees and looks too Back inside where no one can see How I see me And you. How can that baby* Who wasn't near grown Be here now* After all the rolling years Like a statue frozen in place In spite of the years Life moves Yet she stands still to wait Moving through the fog Searching for a way out Or a way in. Yet not looking so no one sees I called to you You wouldn't hear Or would you? Was that you? In here, way down in Where they gave me to stay I didn't know it would work this way I climbed down in And you stayed out And now you're so far away Will we hear our own voice And quiet the rest And look back at a life That I'm told not to see When I was a mother and you were my son If only for a moment