The Transformative Wonder of My Mother
Marilyn El-Abidin 1968 (Passaic)
It has not always been easy knowing you
or being your daughter
Fear, guilt, never feeling completely understood
mental, emotional, physical abuse
I forgive you
And now you have become meek
and a shadow of what you once were
And now I grieve for the person I knew
Although she is kinder this hour
Would I still have forgiven you
Had you not faded to half the power?
The Transformation is how far we both have come
The forgiveness and everlasting love
Written on the sun
About this poem
This power was written during a writer's workshop when a participant mentioned her again parents. The writing prompt was "transformative wonder"
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