Gift of Motherhood and Songs<\/p>\n
I think I was going to wait so long for paradise,
\nto hold my mother like me at childhood would,
\nto my doll. But you came as an angel, not fallen.
\nIt was as if mother resurrected into your body,
\nto teach me how to stay afloat on this sea,
\nif the ship capsizes by the hands of angry ice,
\njealous waves and dark forces beyond us.
\nGod gave me you; he knew there are many
\nwho would push me into the jaws of grief.
\nThe sea seeks to grip a fish to its heart:
\nhow do I tell God I do not want to be robed
\nof warmth? My childhood lost his mother
\nand its scars are there still, on my body,
\nfor certain wounds do not disappear quickly;
\nthey fall in love with our flesh, again and again,
\nand make love to it in the dark, like the grief
\nhunting you. But there’s another gift: songs
\nto be sung aloud in seasons of sorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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