Now spit upon
And peed upon
The decadence
Of the early 20th century
Rich luxury
Only the best clients
Will do no riffraff
Then all the years
gone by
In a flash
Now only the homeless
Find accomadations
Inside the gilded rooms
The pandemic caused
It too be used
For nothing at all
Left without
Paying customers
Left to earn its keep
Turned over to the city.
Nothing remains.
Of the old life
Nor anyone to remember.
She sat there smoking
In front of the hotel
Where everyone
Could see what
Her daughter had done
Not even allowed
In the lobby
But forced out
On the streets
Like a criminal
Smoking was her joy.
It was against gods laws
And now against mans
As well.
She once wrote
An article about
How bad her daughters
Asthma was and how it hurt
Her to see her smoke
All that fuss about
Her lungs when she
Should not even
Have been born
But she could not
Get rid of her
She had won an award
For her article
It was so heart felt
And that she would
Give up something
For a child to live.
It was not true
She had not given up
Her desire to destroy
She just did it
When no one was
Looking
Behind her back
But no one could
Tell her how much
It meant to her to get
That award
Afterwards she told
Them all about it
How much she hated
Her daughter for making
Her write the article
And lie to her bosses
She had done the same
Thing to her mother
Behind the backs
Of her relatives
Just to get even
She drank alcohol
They never did know
Of course they did
They just did not tell her
And it was the same
With the daughter
She could smell
The hotdogs on her breath
And the cigarettes
In her purse
There was no way
Of making her stop
Such a harmful
Thing to herself.
She just wanted her way
Now she wanted
Everyone to know
What she had to put up
With all that Christianity
Her death certificate
Said she had died
When her heart stopped
She had brain cancer
Which had eaten up
Her brain
And her life
Always doing harmful things
Who knows what her parents
Thought of her actions
It was really those kids
Who came from Germany
During the war
So envious and devious
Making her believe
Her parents did not
Want her nor allow her
Anything at all
It also sadly stated
She had melanoma
Of the lung,
Cancer of the lungs
If she had lived
She would have begun
To know what it meant
Not to breathe
Nor to know good health
To always sit outside
The group of kids
Not able to join
The fun when in fact
She was better equipped.
Just no allowed
Her mother would not have
Known how much pain
It is not to be able
To breathe freely
To lay there without
The ability to smoke.
A cigarette in the hospital
Probably broke her heart.
But it was the other children
Who never got to have a mother?
Nor do they really care anymore?
Not even visiting her at hospital
They did not know
But thier wives had known
She called them everyday
Once the daughter had left
Making sure they knew
How bad she was to her.
Sadly, all the glamour
Of her mothers life
Was gone and she was penniless
She did not care about it
They would take care of her.
Not even a burial was paid by any of them...
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