Perfect Stranger/Mother Dearest

How can it hurt so much?
How can this be really happening?
How can my mother be aperfect stranger?

How can this hurt so bad I'm in tears every time I think about it?
How can this hurt that even when I'm happy and she's my mom again, I still cry?
How can this person yelling and throwing things by the one I call mommy?

What am I supposed to do?
When she changes her emotions as fast as she changes clothes?
How am I supposed to please her when she doesn't give me a chance?

And how can a mother want a child
To do her chores, and not her homework?
Show my the logic please, mommy dearest!

How am I supposed to be able to talk to her,
When she yells at my littlest question?
Where'd my mother go and who is this stranger?

Why do I have to defend myself against her
Day after day after day?
Why am I the one crying?

Why is it that my dad's a refuge?
When I thought I hated it there the most?
Why do I feel like I'll never be saved?

Why does the good days get weighed out by the bad?
What happened to the laughter and smiles?
Has it all been replaced with yelling and tears?

I can't believe this has happened...
I thought I knew my mother.
Now she's just a
perfect
stranger