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MotherLove

MotherLove
Re-Inventing a Good and Blessed Future for Our Children
By Esther Davis-Thompson

I give honor to God
and to my mother
and to every mother who has ever wondered
how much real life she was supposed to take

to all of you who
are trying to mother through personal pain
having suffered emotionally/spiritually oppressive blows
to your own self-image

and those of you who are now or have ever been
on a first name basis with
Depression and Despair

you, who know Lack so well
you have to
lay things away
or steal things
or pray hard for things
or do without things

and those of you who
fight in wars
against roaches
men who lack Wisdom and Spirit
mice / rats
and dirty clothes
all on the same day

to you who had to
have an abortion to be logical

and you who had to
bury a son or a daughter
and, of course, one of your hearts along with them