Why Do Parents Place, One Child, Over Another? (April 2, 2016)

How does

A parent

Place the needs

Of one child

Over the other?

Especially

As the chosen child

Is abusive

And manipulative.

A question

I'm asking myself

For the past 30 years.

The irony is

I am

The one

That gets chosen.

Whenever

It's time

To go shopping

For clothes.

Until

I come out

Almost

A decade ago.

Becoming

Persona non grata.

As if

Having fiction

Confirmed

As reality

Was too much.

Although

They denied this

When confronted

By me.

Like my memories are

A figment of my imagination

That I made up

Of those trips

Over the years.

Yeah right.

And Canada is

Officially

The 51st to 61st state

Of the United States.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: During my Thursday meeting, with the social worker (March 31, 2016), the conversation got around, to talking about my relationship, with my mom. To which, I described, as dead, for the past 3 years, at my decision, for emotional and psychological reasons. Given my mom's inability to respect the boundaries that I have set up, as part of my healing process, and her reluctance, to be seen, in public, with me, when we go get together, at a neutral location. As if, neighbours, from 20 years ago, are going to start gossipping about me, and the transitioning journey, I am undertaking. Honestly, I haven't seen these people, since I moved out, for university, in 1990.

Sheesh. Give me, a freaking break.