My Mother's Pain

My Mother's Pain---a Poem

The pain she felt when I kicked her womb

From the inside

Tearing through

I felt her pain

I still feel it

Her salty tears I taste

I see the pain in her eyes

The razor blade tears cascade

Every breath she takes is filled with agony

Past ancestral pain

Generational captivity

Darkness, anxiety

The non-stop fear runs deep

She is my mother and I feel her pain

Dancing the dream, I feel her fear

Eyes lonely like melting moons

I pray, yearning for a day when the water runs clear

When the sickly stains of the past just disappear

When the ugly smears of putrid fear just fall away

I am tired of my mother's pain

Just leave

I need peace

I am my mother

my mother is me