Mom part two

Verse 1]

Stephanie, you told me everything was on me

Every scream in that house somehow became my story

You said your sickness, your stress, your pain, your heart

All of it was my fault from the start

You’d say, “Look what you’re doing to me again,”

While I was just a kid trying to understand

How a child becomes the villain in her own home

How I learned so young I was already alone

I remember brushing knots from my own hair

Crying in the mirror wishing someone cared

Nobody showed me how to grow into myself

I had to raise a child that nobody else helped

And kids aren’t supposed to carry that weight

They’re supposed to feel safe

Not learn survival before they learn their name

Stephanie, you told me I was the reason you broke

Every heart scare, every time you choked

Said your heart attacks were because of me

Like a child holds that responsibility

Maybe you were sick, maybe you were hurting too

But blaming your daughter was never something you should do

And whether by anger or by default

You still made me carry all the fault

Now I’m undoing curses you put in me

Trying to learn the woman I was never taught to be

I never had a childhood, just survival mode

Watching everyone else get love I never got at home

Girls learned makeup and braids from their moms

I learned silence and how to stay calm

No one taught me what to do when my body changed

I figured it out alone through confusion and shame

Trying to learn womanhood from whispers and friends

Because asking you only started fights again

You were supposed to guide me through growing pains

Instead, I learned how to hide bruises and blame

And now I’m grown still fixing parts of me

That broke when you refused to see

And maybe you were drowning in your own mind

But you left your daughter behind

Stephanie, you told me I was the reason you broke

Every heart scare, every time you choked

Said your heart attacks were because of me

Like a child holds that responsibility

Maybe you were sick, maybe you were hurting too

But blaming your daughter was never something you should do

And whether by anger or by default

You still made me carry all the fault

Now I’m undoing curses you put in me

Trying to learn the woman I was never taught to be

A child doesn’t ruin a mother’s life

A child doesn’t cause a heart to fail at night

A child doesn’t deserve to feel like a curse

Just for being born into something worse

You say you did your best — maybe you believe that’s true

But your best still broke something in me too

Stephanie, I’m still healing from your storms

Still learning love doesn’t have to come with war

Still teaching myself things you never showed

Still unpacking pain I was forced to hold

And I hope one day you understand the cost

Of a daughter who felt forever lost

But this curse ends here with me

I’m finally learning how to be free

I was just a kid

And I deserved a mom