She Deserves

Hope like a flame never fades
Ghosts unlike your clothes can’t be changed
It gets so hard being blessed or not
You only know it happened with a rear view shot.
She didn’t get the best start
Her man didn’t hold up his part
The kids don’t get it and they won’t for a while
But she always makes sure to send them off with her smile.
And there’s only one thing she feels good for
That’s to wipe their feet at the kitchen door
To fetch their coats when its time for them to leave.
And there’s only one thing that she wants more
Than to sail away to a distant shore
That’s a little respect but she deserves much more.
She isn’t the type to complain
Each child gives her will to remain
She might have been handed just pieces of coal
But her touch turns each of them into gold.