Missing Mummy

By Emma Speigler

ISBN: 978 1 84747 022 5

Published: 2006

Pages: 80

Description

Missing Mummy looks at alcoholism and the effects it can have on a family. It provides an insight into the complex emotions of a child growing up with an alcoholic parent, whose mother was also an alcoholic. The poetry takes a journey of recovery to end with a message of hope, acceptance and forgiveness.

About the Author

Emma Spiegler has compiled a variety of 30 poems to offer the reader an insight into addiction and its consequences. Having lived with an alcoholic mother for 20 years, she has seen her mother suffer greatly from mental illness, and her mother has now entered the beautiful world of sobriety, stopping the cycle of addiction.

Book Extract

The Untold Memories Of Past Souls

A sadness filled stem

Only told by its droopiness

Foreverness in a stream of worries

A broken trust bond time and time again

Tears of a bird that only remains in the sky

Children left dying

With only self preservation to survive

Share your warmth with me

Just a little or two

Touch me you monster

Before I internalise you

Envelope the creatures that so desperately crave for affection

Capture the wicked whose heads must be stamped on

Death is intolerable even words can't describe

Emotions like waterfalls

Each trickle access denied

Killing sprees are destined as are too the embryo's

Life is a journey that will never be known

Open your eyes and your secrets will pour

Fixing your hairs only closes your pores

Giving hope of the daylight

Safety of the infinite stars

Grazing the knuckles

When there are already scars

Starving the nations

Bleeding them dry

Versace and lip-gloss

There is something in my eye

Quietness is bliss

But then company is missed

Laughter is a blessing

For there is beauty in pain

Love is a gift

With a thousand names

Growth is a promise

We must keep to ourselves

Patience is a virtue

That must be sold on shelves

Time is a present

Today is my feast

Water is my sanctuary where I defeat the beasts

Peoples are searching

Expression through nature

Countries are crying

Mothers dumped in a dumpster

Forgetting an art form and love a true wonder

Greed a phenomenon

And guilt a natural disaster

Heaven's doors crushed on blindness forever

Never finding

Oppressing creation

Memories are whispers

Heard everywhere

Pictures are blinkers on what was truly there

Skin is as real as you make it be

Happiness will come when you set yourself free

Disenfranchised my favourite word

Never ending rainbows

His histories repeating

Depression is a theme

With a life-force of its own

Sanity is only necessary

When the grass has overgrown

Mixing and matching

Like eve's forbidden fruit

Man made religion

Designed only to confuse

Those who give in and become blinded by tradition

People are amazing

A new realisation

Fear is disgusting and that's why you're washing

Denial is a secret

Oblivious to its reflection

Constantly rejecting a deserved connection

Don't look back or the ocean will tide over you

Running too fast will not cure your broken shoe

Lightening the bolt down

Freeing the storm

Unravelling true desire in its truest form

Always wanting

What others have got

Finishing the story before it gets too hot!