A Lesson I Pray You Learn

by Shmendrick

Grizabella speaks to Bombalurina as Bombalurina becomes a mother

You always asked more of me than I could give

You always demanded what was impossible

You wanted love and more than that

You wanted to have the world at your feet all the time

You never wanted to fall

You had to learn sometime

I knew I would fail you

For your expectations were always too high for me

I don't know why they were

You were not brought into the world with everything

I knew when I had you, you would have nothing

Maybe you remembered back to the days

Of glory, maybe I had passed that memory onto you

A memory I refused to remember

I left you in the yard because there you would have

Everything.

I hoped you would be comfortable and happy

I prayed you would never follow my path

But fate has a twisted sense of humour

The thing I sought to protect you from

You became what I had been

A proud creature always seeking something better

You left then came back again

But they accepted you

You learnt to control your pride

And that is a lesson I never learned

Along with how to be a mother

And that is a lesson I pray you learn