an unsaid conversation with mother
shubhi gupta 2003 (lucknow)
Mother, I am burnt,
I have parts in me I buried,
In the hollow shell of my body,
Mother, I was hurt,
I hid on the top of the shelf, I cried
When you put me down,
You burned me,
Because mother, in pain,
You didn't come for me,
You came to fix me,
Mother, I feel broken
Am I a toy with its parts replaceable? If so,
Send me back to the shop,
Mother, I am burned out of exhaustion,
I can't fight to save what we couldn't finish building
Mother, you thought you knew me best,
But you only knew the pieces I showed,
The silent silence between us silenced me more
And was suddenly I was no more
Mother your ignorance hurt me like no other,
And now it's a scar but
It doesn't hurt as it did before,
It's ugly it's mean and a demon
Mother, I remember every word you ever spooked me with
Like it was a song,
I would hum it in my head and play make-believe with it,
It won, every single time
And now we are older,
Now we are different but
I don't feel that you regret it,
Mother, I didn't see you,
and you didn't hear me.
Now I am older ,
And those conversations are
Buried deep within me
Somewhere with the teenage me,
Mother, now we fight no more,
And suddenly we are Strangers.
About this poem
This poem is about how trauma caused by generational gap causes even the closest relations to fall apart
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Written on September 10, 2022
Submitted by bree4455645 on September 10, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,208 |
Words | 277 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6 |
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