sometimesihatemycat

My child
is not
the “best thing
I have ever done”
He
is
not
finished
nor am I
and to declare that as fact
is a sappy fairytale
an empty delusion
at best
And
a reduction of me
and my highest possible form
of usefulness
to
sex object
receptacle
uterus
vessel
vagina
at worst
I will not do that
to either of us

-me

Painting: Motherhood By Veronica Jackson

A repost for this Mother’s Day.

~ by April on May 13, 2018.

Posted in Body, Family, Humanity, Identity, Motherhood, Poetry, Women's Issues
Tags: Body, Child, Honesty, Love, Mother, Mother's Day, Not done, Poetry, Reduction