Let me count the ways 

I’ve been hurt.

Father wasn’t pleased when I confronted him. 

After I found out he had an affair

  I was heartbroken.

How would you react if

 If you saw your mother balling her eyes out

  because the man she loved,

  the man she married, 

the man she was supposed to spend the rest of her life with cheated.

That day after I confronted him,

  he gave up on me so I gave up on him.

  I tried holding on but it was like holding on to a hopeless tree.

I broke down.

  My mom was there to comfort me,

  “who broke your heart” she said.

We both laughed. 

Even though we were sad,

my mother was strong.

I was supposed to comfort her

  but here she is comforting me.

I guess a mothers job is never done.