It's time to share

I'm so excited for my easter break coming up. I really need this one. While I'm taking a break from homework, I wanted to share a piece of poetry that I just wrote for my creative writing class. I hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think. Comments always make me smile :)

I Remember, Mama

I remember twirling with the Rosas, Mama

            each of us rising up from the earth

            my petticoats spread out in full bloom

            just like my flowery friends

I remember how I hurt you, Mama

            stealing my petticoats from the closet

            knowing they were meant for Sunday

            knowing he would be mad

I remember the anger that night, Mama

            watching you fall towards me in synchronized grace

            with the white rubble of a broken wall

            guilt rose up within me

I remember how he cried, Mama

            limp in your lap while he begged for absolution

            you folded your arms around him

            and he pushed you down, Mama

            and you sunk back into the ground

I remember running through the fields, Mama

            surrounded by bright crimson Castillejas

             strangling everything around them

            pushing them back and killing them

I remember looking at the purple neck, Mama

            Daddy had painted it

            shoving his fingers into your soft flesh

            pushing you down

I remember picking flowers that day, Mama

            each delicate blossom begging for its life

            while we ripped them from their roots

            we took them from the earth

I remember when he called, Mama

             you pleading with him one last time

            while he scream through the phone

            ripping you from your roots

I tried to push up through the ground, Mama

            just like our flowers did

            but I couldn’t

            our flowers were limp in their glass shell

            their blossoms withered and black

           

I remember watching the snow fall, Mama   

            each flake a frozen droplet

            that had fallen from your face

            piling in heaps everywhere

I remember feeling so lonely, Mama

            running everywhere

            looking for the only friends I had

            wishing to see they faces

I remember brushing your tears away, Mama

            my little companions frozen

            into skeletons of what had been

            and I screamed in agony

I remember falling into your tears, Mama

            you and me falling in synchronized grace

            I wanted your tears

             to swallow me up

            and let me rot into the earth

I remember how spring finally came, Mama

            I sat upon the window sill

             waiting

             to rise up from the earth

I remember that you grab my hand, Mama

            begging me to come

            but I couldn’t

            I hadn’t risen

I remember you picking me up, Mama

            my tears soaking your dress

            that was covered in flowers

            while you dragged me from my perch

I remember you setting me down, Mama

            letting my toes sink into the earth

            pulling my hands away from your skirt

            while you pushed me forward

I remember that’s when I saw them, Mama

            the Liliums were everywhere

            smiling at me,

            They wanted me to rise

                        Oh, how I wanted to rise, Mama

I remember the tears falling down my face, Mama

            sprinkling down like heavenly rain

            watering the Liliums pushing up in the earth

            telling them to rise

I remember how those tears made me feel, Mama

            they sprinkled down on me

            watering my soul

            whispering to me

                        They wanted me to rise, Mama

Then you grabbed my hand, Mama

            I looked at you

            you were watering your soul too

            I knew you wanted to rise

                        Oh, how I wanted you to rise, Mama

Now I know, Mama

            there was something deep within myself

            bursting through the earth

            unfolding into new life

                        and I rose

                        I rose with you, Mama