Thursday, April 4, 2013

Poem#5 Prompt #3 Migrant Daughters

Working through inspiration 
After a daunting migration

Strange daughter left 
enduring lashes-her uncle's whip
what she felt
who would have known the profundity,
the bittersweet loss of integrity?

Working through inspiration 
After a DAUNTING migration

A brave mother leaves
two daughters behind 
the greatest heartache of all time
A greater heartache than a dead husband 
left in the dirt the legend of his crime

made her stoic

working through inspiration 
after a daunting migration

daughter number two 
left behind with a mild flu
left further though

The mother did not want this one to migrate
but that sister she planned a different fate
Her great heart guided another to migrate

bittersweet 


Working through inspiration 
After a daunting migration


As she looks at her distant niece 
from afar at a chain of Ross stores (dress for less)
she permeates a morose melancholy echoing 
throughout the whole store
Her eyes drowned in pain bittersweet
she wonders what forgiving would restore?
But it is too late for this aunt to form a bond

Her mother's word was not bond 
in turn daughter number two
spends too many years, bitter,
talking down to the first daughters
last daughter (the niece)
bittersweetness began to increase


Working through inspiration 
After a daunting migration


disconnected 
bittersweet, awful, discontented 
remorse, regret, envy (envelopes daughter number two)

She should have never migrated (bitterness grows inside her)

divided she begins to find ways to humiliate 
the guide that brought her over to migrate

Mother is ashes now
and divided the family's fate
the retreat to somehow
find freedom as of late
but forgiving never comes

walking, working, worrying through inspiration 

after a daunting migration 

walking through a painful way to gain inspiration 
after a haunting migration 

Apoco, que tantos años luchando por mi hija
ya no llorro porque me ha hecho fuerte

stoic

working through the realizations that bring inspiration
after a daunting migration


Deborah Leon Godinez Copyright ©2013

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