MOTHER KNOWS BEST

They say a mother always knows,
A mother always knows what foods best nourish her child,
A mother always knows when the weather will turn wild,
A mother always knows what clothes are best fitting,
A mother always knows that you’re bored when you’re still sitting, 
A mother always knows when you’re feeling not quite yourself,
A mother always knows to hide the cookies on the top shelf,
A mother always knows how to kiss better that scraped knee,
A mother always knows what it is those wanting eyes see,
A mother always knows...
So why didn’t she?
Why didn’t she know when she left how much I’d hurt?
Why didn’t she know by this time in my life I wouldn’t want to be on this earth?
Why didn’t she know all the pain her “successor” would cause me?
Why didn’t she know how bad it would really be? 
Why didn’t she know that some of my “family” would detest me and leave me behind?
Why didn’t she know those things when she died?
I wish to this day more than anything else, she would have taken me with her because that would have been best...