Like having the same love for your mother as when you were first put into her arms
Needy and unaware of independnece
Before she first told you couldn’t go play with your friends
Before she made you eat your spinach
Before she made you brush your hair and your teeth
Before she made you go to bed a nine o clock
Before she told you that you were too young to have a boyfriend
Before she wouldn’t allow you to come home at midnight
Before she made you call her when you went out
Before you always thought she just thought she’d never understand
Before you blamed her for all your problems
Before you realized how to make her cry
Before it was nothing to look in her face and lie
Before you stopped being scared of what she thought
Before you thought you could do everything on your own
Before you forgot how to ask for help
Before you just had to learn for yourself
Now you know you only get one
They do the best with what they know
With what came before you and with what you may never know
Now it’s time to live for you
To Love being your mother’s daughter
But knowing you have to become more
To let go of the past that created you
And walk into the new world to wear the label your about to create yourself