Mother's Face

Prompt: Write about a character who has not seen her mother for fifteen years.

 

She had not seen her

Mother for fifteen years –

That fact must be known

Before this can proceed,

For the knowledge that

She had gone fifteen years

Without seeing her mother’s

            Gleaming face,

With the

            Pearly blue eyes

Staring into the distance,

The too dark

            Red lipstick

Upon the thinning lips,

            Tweezed brows

And

            Faint blush,

Was too much for her to bear

Some days.

 

She stumbled along in the world,

Reaching out to anyone

Who offered a simple kindness,

And wished more than anything

That she could see her mother’s

Face, just once more.

The blue sky she could give up

Forever,

But not the blue in her

Mother’s eyes.

Sometimes she cried out

To a god –

Any god, she was not

Very picky –

And asked for this one gift:

The chance to see her

Mother’s face with her real

Eyes, just for a moment,

But it was never answered.

 

Oh, what she would give

To rid herself of this

Curse

That caused her eyes to

Become white and glassy.

Author's Note

I wanted to stray away from the basic idea of having either the mother die or leave the family. Do you think this is somewhat different?

Reviews

[Andromeda]

i didnt get to tell you this in class, but i LOVE it! love, love, love it!