Sometimes I feel
as if my mother’s story
got lost
She was
an only child
and that singularity
is a two-sided beast
Of course it allowed her
the freedom
to tell her story
any way she liked
without contradiction
or interruption
But it also left her
with the burden
of carrying that story alone
This is for Hedgie, keeper of Galen’s Friday 55, at Verse Escape.
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