Sorry to my mother
☆Faith☆ (A Series Of Poems)
Sorry to my mother
To whom I once told was hard to understand
Our familial connection was faulty
And it fell to the hands of a language gap
How cruel to be hurt by the words of a toddler
To say I did not like your native tongue
To say I did not like you speaking to me
To not understand you and you not understand me
And in language we could never have a loving touch
And to think it took losing half of myself to finally feel love
It was circumstances like the rest of my temporary heartaches
In my hot gleaming tears you finally heard me
In a long overdue hug I finally heard you too
How sad I lost my parents to the opportunities I was given
How sad I lost my culture and listen to it through the versions now rewritten
How sad to have never known why I don't know Spanish well
How sad I am, now college aged, finally at a place where I want so desperately to speak to you with fluent elegance and grace
Sorry to my mother
I apologize your nightly tales in Spanish could not be my comfort place
Written on: May 23, 2023