It’s easy to think that everything is fine
Until some woman you barely know
Cuts across your path in the locker room
Sobbing
And shuts herself in a bathroom stall and you just stand there
Listening to her cry
Because as you later find out
She lost custody of her daughter
In a brutal court fight where she was found
By a judge to be a
Negligent mother.
I tell the woman
That it will be okay
In the long run
Her daughter
Will not grow up to hate her
But I am not sure that is true.
Some children will not forgive.
Some mothers will always be sad
And sometimes nothing is fine.