Dear Ma

You look the happiest when you dance

I definitely got your smile

But the grace that you emanate,

Well lets just say I got dad’s crassness and two left feet

Rosy cheeks, my favourite pair of brown eyes

You’re the first person I loved,

You were my first home Ma

You will be my last

Yours was the hand I grabbed first, when I was just learning to curl my palm

Your hug is still my biggest fix

Being away from you for past few years has felt like I left half my heart at home

With you, because I know even though this world will break it into pieces

You’ll hold onto it like life itself

We’ve cried, we’ve fought

Together and amongst ourselves

But it will always be You and I against the world

And of course the other three Heathens at home

I suppose I will never understand what being a mom feels like until I have my own kids, but I can tell you this

You’re a fierce woman, grace becomes you

Twice as beautiful with a spine of iron

I never noticed it before but now I can finally see glimpses of the woman you were before you had me,

The things that used to make you smile, before I made you cry

The songs you used hum, before yelling us awake for school

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