All My Sorrows Dressed in White

She gave birth to a boy who now calls another woman "Mama."
He lives upstairs in silk and sunlight.
She stands in the corner in silence and shadow.

In a house ruled by money, cruelty, and lies,
A Black maid watches her stolen child grow beneath the arms of the woman who took everything.

They say she should be grateful.
They say he was never hers.

But blood remembers what silence cannot.