You said you’d always love me when you smacked me and I cried

But that was a lie

Here’s an open hand

Here’s a kiss

Here’s an open hand

Here’s a fist

I came from your womb

You suckled me from your breast

But then came the test

When I learned to speak and be naughty

When I learned to be an individual when I rebelled

You said I’d changed you said I’d go to hell

Now I find your love was conditional

With condition you imposed

I chose to be me

You chose to not to the child or the adult me

They say that blood is thicker than water

But all I can see are the tears in my eyes!