Little girl

a little girl looks up to her mom

a little girl finds her mom beautiful

a little girl confides in her mom

a little finds comfort through her

older and older time passes on

Mom finds her way to get around in this cruel world

little girl now older girl notices

she notices how her mom stays in that bathroom for not one but two hours

she notices the hair clogging the drain the hair that used to be long and beautiful now ugly and damaged

she notices the marks on her arm the arm that used to hold the girl now used to push her away

she notices the baggies sitting in her top drawer the baggies covering the pictures, ruining them, powder covering the floor

she notices and she knows drugs ruined her mom her mom ruined her 

Mom and daughter are now known as strangers cause even though they live in the same two-bedroom apartment they don't know anything about each other.