It must be heartbreaking,
To see your mother
Give up her youth
To make enough
Just to feed everyone
But her children.
***
My mother is
The only woman I know
Who has been raped
Beaten
Lynched
Robbed
Malnourished
And
Terrorized
And is still standing.
So forgive her,
if she is
Hunchbacked now,
Sore on the Eyes
With a Raspy voice
She is trying, her best.