Dear Mother

Dear Mother

Dear Mother.
My mind and spirit have been awake so long now
Haunted by your temper moaning
Like a wakened dead
Now you may rest in peace
And, hopefully, I will too
I have been the son you wanted
So many years after I left school
I was 'recalcitrant' to you
You thought
I would not go on my knees
You may be god in the house
But we have a free will
At least I have one
But I still did, and do,
What I ought