Sunday, May 10, 2015

#17: A Mother's Love


My mom is the best. Seriously. Here she is flying effortlessly over Chicago. Sorry Air Jordan, but this is some superman level flying.



Below is my first prose. It was fun to write, and the words came pretty naturally. I might start writing in this style more often.

This particular piece is of a story that my mom has told me many time but I have no recollection of it. Thanks mom for all the ways in which you show your love. Happy Mothers Day

I stood there
Innocent
Barely three years old.
You knew
I knew
But I wanted
To get away with it.
I lied to you.
Not with words
With my eyes
But the evidence
Was there.

The stool
So I could reach
The stove.
The cupcakes
Turned to muffins.
My mouth
Sugary sweet and guilty.

You sent me
To my room.
I raged
And raged
And raged.
I stomped off to my room.
I laid on the floor.

Except...
I stuck my feet
Out the doorway.
An act of rebellion.
Stupid rebellion.
What did you see
In me in that moment?

A sinner?
A stupid child?
Surely I was both.
Yet you loved me
All the more


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