Resentment from the Grave
Things I don't say out loud

It’s kind of amusing to think about things I don’t say out loud because I say
everything out loud.
But then it had me thinking,
there are things I don’t say, not even to myself
or to God.
Things like, how I resent my grandmother from the grave.
For giving me the best childhood a kid could ask for and for effing up my
moms.
I don’t say that out loud, the word fuck. It’s not even part of my vocabulary
and I don’t even like typing it out.
But it’s something I don’t say out loud.
I don’t want others to know I’ve thunk it.
But I feel we hide behind an invisible wall.
God knows I’ve said the F word.
He knows I’ve said it about my grandmother.
Who tricked me on my 8th birthday and bought me dresses instead of toys.
I cried,
because I was ungrateful.
But she planned to school the brat in me when after I cried, she told me to
check the bedroom because she heard something growling in there.
I wiped my snotty tears and there it was. A big giant plush Disney Beast
sitting on the bed.
Straightway, my entire life has recollected this moment.
I hugged my grandmother so tight as she
laughed at the trickery she pulled to make a woman out of me.
This was my favorite memory.
But why didn’t she do that for my mother?
About the Creator
Natasha Collazo
Selected Writer in Residency, Champagne France ---2026
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Comments (6)
This was so beautifully honest and such a heartbreaking question at the end.
Wonderfully powerful and like you I seldom use the word out loud I so often use to curse alone
I'm guessing she keeps asking herself the same thing.
I go through life biting my tongue. So much I want to say, so much I'll never even write about
Interesting question... Hopefully it was because she was a late bloomer and still in the process of growing herself and not some type of deep resentment of her own child. Excellent poem!!!
As someone raised by their grandmother, this hit a special spot ✨🤌🏽