Dear mother, dear mother
Dear mother, dear mother
My dear
Dear mother, I remember
Dear mother, your hair like a waterfall
Dear mother, your lips bloody red
Dear mother, your heels announced themselves
Dear mother, hammering could be heard by the hallways
Dear mother, let’s face the facts
Dear mother, the umbilical cord was never cut
I remember knife threats, savage fights
Dear mother, dear mother
I didn’t know what to do
Before your enormous powers
Dear mother, I have inherited your abyss
Dear mother, I forgive you
You were more than enough
Dear mother, dear mother
Dear mother, my dear
Dear mother, there are no words left to say
I learned your language
But I still refuse to speak it
It hurts my soul
All of me hurts
Distance was but my only option, my only option
I feel myself becoming you
Dear mother, how ironic
Dear mother, what joy
I have inherited your thumping abysses
The umbilical cord was never cut
Until I did it
My heavenly mother
You are forever, forever
Dear mother
My beginning and my end