Mom

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I would just like to ask

Mom,

How could you cradle an infant,

wide-eyed and innocent,

untouched by the dark tendrils of grief,

Untainted by the dark pollution of society

and think.

'I want to leave you alone.

Like a seal in an ocean

full of killer whales'

What kind of woman

looks down at the face

of a daughter

she created and thinks

'I do not want the task

of protecting you

from the monsters

hiding underneath your bed.'

how much hatred

do you have to harbor

to hold my gaze

and think.

'I am an artist

and you are not good enough

to hold any part

of my creation.'

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