ARMS

In my mother's arms

I'm just like a child

In my mother's arms

I don't have to hide

In my mother's arms

I can show my weaker side

In my mother's arms

I feel safe once again

In my mother's arms

I feel at peace

In my mother's arms

There is a wordless promise that she will stay,

That everything will be ok

Now my mother's hands are crossed, one over the other

She has lost her color

I long for my mother's embrace

I no longer feel safe

I no longer feel ok

A pair of arms wrap around me,

But they are not my mother's

I only want her's

I want that promise that everything will be ok.

Tears fall as I struggle, these foreign arms, they hold me tighter.

There is no escape

And I feel nothing but this strange emptiness

Hands stroke my hair telling me 'It will be ok'

And oh how I want to believe them.

But these arms don't feel the same.