These words are not yours<\/p>\n
\u2018I am not a fighter\u2019 Brigitte Poirson<\/p>\n
Mother, these are not your utterances.
\nYou do not talk to me without light in your voice,
\nwithout adding a pinch of hope on my tongue.<\/p>\n
You would tell me to hang on, on days
\nwhen the wind breaks off chains,
\nseeking to devour bodies prone to surrender<\/p>\n
to darkness, to nightmares and to death.<\/p>\n
There’s a way a possessed sea rages:
\nmy mother’s demons have resurrected,
\nperhaps with more entourage.<\/p>\n
And this is why my heart bleeds before you
\nto show you how far you’ve wandered
\nfrom your body, believe me, mother.<\/p>\n
You taught me to walk the world
\nwith songs as lamps around my head,
\nhunting my grief as game in the forest,<\/p>\n
and not to surrender to torments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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