Analysis of Bad Mum day



I wrote this last night after having one of "those days"

"I love you good night sweet dreams"
I sigh heavy about to walk away
but then I just stand there still
as i think about our day

Your little heads rest gently,
you lay there tucked in tight
I know I failed at mum today, tommorow will be better..it just might

Maybe I should have worried less about the farm, the jobs, the mess, I should have been more patient
 I should have been my best

Today was ment to be a good day
I was set to be that mum
That speaks without scolding, that's kind and smiley and fun

I fell asleep by mistake I had million things to do. Dishes sat in the sink dirty washing scattered through every room.

I woke up quick as lightning
fear weighed heavy on my mind
 I had so much to do today but now I didnt have the time.

I rush you through your breakfast
I get you quickly dressed
I tell you to "hurry find your shoes!"
I'm a grumpy, impatient mess

I leave the cold half coffee
to sit there on the bench
 I'm stressing about doing too many things ..I'm a distracted unkept wrench

We miss the bus by seconds
I swear inside my mind
I blame you for moving too slowly
My words are thoughtless and unkind

I rush back home to tackle
all those things I'd planned to do
but I see it's time to head to work now
I leave the the house a messy unrule.

I try to think of dinner as I'm putting up a fence, I start to remember my morning now my heart floods with deep regret

It's a busy day of farming
 So many mistakes made by me
But my biggest mistake by far today
was not being the mum you need

I tell myself I'll do better when the boys come home from school
I tell myself just start again
I give myself 3 rules

I'm not to be impatient
I will not yell today
I'LL stop sweatting about the messy house that never goes away

I'm late to meet the school bus
So you walk home you know the way
I give you jobs  the moment your in
I don't even ask about your day

I cook tea and sort some washing then it's bath and teeth and bed
I stand in the doorway and wish sweet dreams as you lay down your little heads

I'm standing here knowing how much
 I failed to be your mum. I should have enjoyed each moment my sweet and precious sons

I know that you need better
 But as you lay in bed tonight
please know tommrow il try my best
to be a mum... a mum who gets it right.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 2,357
Words 512
Sentences 10
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 1, 4, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 4
Lines Amount 55
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

I wrote this poem in tears after Long hard day

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Submitted by aliceschipper100 on July 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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