Parenting Never Ends - Hello Saferide

Mother, give me back my old room.

I won’t

Make a mess like I used to, I won’t play my

Records loud at nights, I’ll keep it quiet.

Mother

Let me have my old bed back and lay out clothes

For me

People give me work and money.

They depend

On me now, if they only knew how thin the ice

They walk on is.

If they only knew how thin the

Ice they walk on is

Mother, please make my decisions like you once

Did, this time I won’t pester you about it, I’ll

Surrender

Mother, these streets are too cold for me.

I’m

Standing by your door.

A plant under each arm

Let me move back in

Father, the last time you offered to teach me all

About the Baltic Sea, it was wasted on me.

Now

I’m ready, throw me once again the footballs you

Tried to throw and this time I will catch and

Learn and know

Mother, if that’s not enough bring me all the way

Back to my original address to your womb

I have trouble sleeping but I don’t recall I had

While in your womb