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My favorite animal is my mother
When her teeth are red with blood
Her shoulders wary and unrelenting
Her eyes heavy stare
Frightened, assessing, confused and aware
Resolved hot and cold
Her hands both ready to catch and hold
Lungs ready to exhale -
To sing or scream or something more
Pacing the cage of the livingroom floor
A chime rings inside
resonates all the time,
fills with a long lost bliss,
a saudade of Her proximity ;
She keeps telling in my heart
'That's not all my child,
You're the part of that symphony,
That ocean profound
My love is all pervading
Cadence of eternal sound'
Tasmay 6d
Oh Mother

A couple hundred pairs
Of pupils watch me walk
Every now and then.

The look of pitiness follows
Through their minds,
As if I’m an alien
Roaming around in the
Humankind.

Oh mother,
Why do they stare at me
When all I do is try to live
In the body that was
Given to me as I stood
In life’s entry line?

Oh mother,
When I look up
Into those eyes of mine,
All I can notice is
The hatred I buried inside

Enough to capture my territory
And mark it as disabled
On the south pole of my brain,
Which was, till date,
My biggest worry.

Oh mother,
Could you please hurry?
I’m losing the war
And in desperate need
Of somebody.

Tasmay
Kaiden Aug 7
Why would you lie to me,
Knowing i would believe?
You told me you would stay
While i saw you leave,

I wish i knew what went through your head,
When you said you wished one day you'd see me dead,
That one day i'd stop breathing,

But still, i kept believing
That one day you would come back,
That the lock on your heart
Would finally crack

And eventually break,
That i'll hear you say it was all fake,
But when that happens, i'll already be dead,
You said that you would love me,
I died a failure instead.
dawg idk this feels like something i would say to my mom lol. also, sorry for the bad quality, i dont really have any inspiration lately
I keep throwing up memories
no one asked me to keep -
bruises shaped like questions,
the sound of my mother’s scream
lodged behind my ribs.

No one tells you grief can rot
when you don’t spit it out.
That love, untouched,
ferments into something sour.
I carry it all in my throat ~
half apology, half war cry.

You say,
“I want more of you.”
And my body says,
“Are you sure?”
Because more of me
means bloodstains on carpet,
means fists instead of lullabies,
means learning how to disappear
before I ever learned to speak.

I was fed fear in childhood portions,
taught to flinch before I felt.
I watched my mother
burn down her mind,
and still tried to build homes
in her ashes.
I held her wrist
when she begged me not to.
Took the pills. Took the gun.
Took the fall.

I was not built for softness
but I do crave it.
Every tender thing feels foreign,
like wearing someone else’s skin.
But you touch me
like I’m not ruined.
And that’s the part
that makes me sick.

Because what if you mean it?

What if love doesn’t have to be
a wound I pick at just to feel alive?
What if you stay?
And worse - what if you don’t?

This is my mourning sickness:
grieving safety I never had,
while choking on the possibility
that I could finally
be held
without having to shatter first.
Some grief is ancient. Some love arrives like a question you’re afraid to answer. This is for the kind of survival that teaches you to flinch before you’re touched, and the slow, terrifying hope that maybe - just maybe - you won’t have to anymore. Mourning things I never got, and the version of me I might be if I ever do.
There is something about becoming a mother that makes you examine the crimes of your own

I do not feel safe with you
My intact body does not equal an intact mind

When I look at you I don't see my mother
You stopped being all that that encompasses a long time ago

Calling me out for being shy when in fact I was just lonely
Believing I was not worthy of the space I took up
Believing my strength was only in being good, performing well and tending to others
Forgetting that I too had a voice
The ability to speak not just listen

You didn't protect my peace
You didn't protect my sanity
And you didn't not teach my how to do it on my own

Maybe you thought my tear streaked face was just my face

You put me in a position where I shared your roll as a mother
Caretaker of the entire house
And in that teaching me that I was only valuable in what I could give
But not valuable enough to receive

I am glad I have a son
He will not have to hide his body in sweaters too warm for the season
He will not be subject to your view of what it means to be a woman
He might actually be as confident and self-loving as your own son

There is only so much oxygen in a room
And I wish you had raised me to believe I could have some

But your biggest crime of all is making me believe that it was laughable that I could be loved
Because as it turns out, I can be
emgwrites Jul 30
Exertion has created a map at the back of her hands.
Just like abrasion, when water gently shapes rocks.
She has untied knot after knot.

Her hands carrying eternities of wisdom.
Jane Drowned Jul 28
Purple Petals

Summer at last
It's almost already gone past
Flowers still in bloom
Here's a purple one just for you.

I'll place it here just for you
Hoping it calls to you
Will you come visit me soon?
It could even be at noon.

Summer sweet tea
Just the way you like it
I'll pour you a glass
If I can just ask,

How have you been?
It is bright and sunny?
I hope it's filled with laughter and your favorite flavored honey

Or maybe that sweet candy coffee you'd make
In that green cup you'd never forget to take
It still sits there
Maybe not where you left it

But I made sure I kept it.
I use it as a vase
For the flowers in my garden
Reserving it for the purple ones

Because I know it's your favorite color
And now it's mine too
It makes me feel so close to you

Purple petals cover the ground
All the hues, make me miss you
I just wish I didn't dismiss you
Because I didn't know how much time we had left

Now I can only move forward
Towards the sun, remembering to have fun
For you, dear mother.
A tribute to my mother.
Monika Jul 28
Isn’t it wild, how the universe misaligns?
Creating distance through time by drawing lines.
You were here before my first breath began,
I’ll spend my years chasing where you stand.

Oh, if I could rewrite the stars’ decree,
I’d cast myself into your century.
A sister, a confidant, your equal in time—
Not just your child, but a partner in rhyme.

We’d share the rhythm of life’s steady tune,
Matching footsteps beneath the same moon.
Not mother and daughter with years to compare,
But living as equals, the same life to share.

But this isn’t our story; this isn’t our fate—
Time separated us, made me too late.
You live in a past I can only trace,
Through your wisdom and the lines on your face.

I'll learn about you by trying to guess,
Closer in age, maybe then you’d confess,
That you’d borrowed my strength more times than I knew—
And in return, I’d say I learned how to be strong from you.

You age like fine wine, your spirit refined,
Each year adds layers, a shine so divine.
But my heart aches with a bittersweet pain,
Knowing we’ll never age the same.

For every year that makes you glow brighter,
The space between us becomes a bit wider.
And though time keeps pulling us apart,
You’ll always remain timeless in my heart.
Kaiden Jul 25
I miss your love,
Your voice that made all the pain go away,
Your hands that always knew how to make something
Out of nothing.

Now i only get your hate,
Your voice that causes me pain
And your hands that hit me for not being perfect.
I just want her back, at least for 5 minutes
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