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Click hereMother's face is lines
weathered into place
by years
of sorrow;
etched upon the canvas
of her heart,
strictly subjugated,
straightened
by disapproval.
Mother's face is lines
ground into place
by years
of disdain;
carved into the clay
of her soul,
heavily suppressed
by disapproval.
Mother's face is lines
seared into place
by years
of heartache;
worn into the fabric
of her spirit,
deeply ingrained
by disapproval.
sometimes life really eats / people really eat your heart out, and it shows.
Turning away from the staple sweet 'motherhood favored' public image, this poem gives a mere glimpse over the dark side of the most basic of relations. That they are never as beautiful as publicly advertised, I believe most realize, at least privately. I just wish more details could be shown about those drk areas (perhaps in 'Dowry II'?), especially on the darkest of all: that ominous repeated disapproval