Over Tired Mummy Goes Shopping

Unpublished: Exception Facebook.

I am the woman you just walked past

Your memory of me will not last

The headache my kids give you

You'll carry most of the day

And a vague feeling of annoyance

Aimed at the woman you just walked past

I am the mother of the child who' screaming

Who doesn't want to be trapped in the trolley

Who wants to run around and be free

Who wants to put things in the basket

Who wants that bright ball on the shelf

Who wants to not be strapped in

Who thinks I am being cruel

I am the person who cannot control her

I am the mother who will - not - crack

I am the mother who's voice is rising

It's getting  louder then it needs to be

But I need to get milk, I need bread

Those chocolates in the trolley?

I'll eat them tonight in the dark

Crying over my inadequacies

They are not the things fueling her tantrum

I am the thing that was, an age ago,

I was you... wondering why that thing couldn't

Stop the behaviors, stop the noise, stop her child

I was giving that "you poor dear" smile

I was handing out advice that cost me nothing

I was glaring at it while leaving

My head throbbing with her brat's screams!

How could anyone let their child be like that?

Why -  doesn't -  she - just - go -  HOME!

 I am the mother of a beautiful child

She's currently having a rough time

She's tired and wants to rest

But their is so much going on

And she want's to explore, to run!

She can't waste time on sleeping!

There's too much to do!  Like this!

And that over there!  And mummy has her trapped!

ARGH!  WHY WON'T I LET HER RUN AROUND?!?

...

You didn't see my Princess this morning

Tidying up her room, putting away her toys

You didn't see her help her brother dress

You didn't see the game she was taken from

To be dragged to go shopping while it rained

You didn't see anything but this 15 minutes

This moment of horror that has me in tears

This woman pushing around an angry child

This woman getting kicked, hit, bit, scratched

This woman just trying to get her shopping done.

And this woman is  sorry if she upset your day.