Speak Up

While you were out experiencing meth for the first time, my mommy paid for my cousins’ diapers and food. While you were out using the money my mom gave you for food and diapers on meth, my mommy opened her checkbook some more to help feed my cousins. While you were out spending the money from my mommy’s checkbook on meth, my mom paid your bills. While you were out spending the bill money my mom gave you on meth, my mom was sad she didn’t have enough to feed your kids, my cousins. While you were out feeling sorry for yourself by doing more meth, my mommy was crying that her nieces and nephews were put into foster care. While you were out doing meth, my mommy brought your children into our household to live with us, I was happy, but my cousins were mean. While my cousins took their anger out on me for you doing meth, my mommy gave my cousins and me the same amount of love. While you were out doing more meth, my mommy stood up for your children to school officials who didn’t want to deal with your angry and hurt children. While you were out telling your children on supervised visits that my mommy was keeping your kids away from you, my mommy was hurt that you would say that about her own sister. While you were out kidnapping people, stealing from family and friends, collecting money for your dealers and starting fires for meth, my mommy was crying and wondering how you wanted to be buried. While you were out accusing my mommy of fighting you over your kids, my mommy was telling your kids that they didn’t deserve this life and how she would fight to protect them from anymore hurt. I sat all by myself in my room and did my homework, without my mommy. While you were mad at everyone but yourself for getting hook on meth, my mommy did everything a real mommy was supposed to do. While you were out doing meth, you never thought about how it would affect my mommy or my mommy’s child.