One Day ( I love you)

Each day another failure,
Striving to impress a fickle heart,
Little recognition for my painful efforts,
Will I ever accomplish a hopeless cause?

Each failing stride I fall weak,
I have nothing more to give,
Yet more is demanded of me,
My heart growing faint and weary

Determined to get back up,
Prove I am worthy of her title,
That I am not just this ugly face,
Make her proud of me one day

All I ever wanted in life,
To please my mother she,
To have her utter three small words,
In exchange for my troubles

Is it ever possible,
To break a heart that is lost?
An unplaced feeling of neglect,
Do I deserve all this pain?

Undertake a struggle,
Battlefield now within my soul,
Craving for acknowledgement,
Mother I did it all for you

I still wait for the day,
A mothers embrace so warm,
To hear her utter three small words,
‘Stephanie, I love you’