Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Because it is finished.

Letter to a Mother

Let me tell you

I had dreamt of it too

Once my belly rounding with child

The O of surprise, pleasure

I had imagined too

That clutch of protest

Pain, the beginning

The tearing the leaving the gone


I have lost them

The right to the words

You have your father’s eyes

You take after me

And I shall no longer speak for you

You will say these things

I love you to the last

Because


Yours will be the voice

They hear before

And after all else

Your lips to move

The song the story
The kiss to silence.


So give me leave

To tell the first story
Because this is how it has always begun

Once there was a child.

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