My Mother
scrubbed floors
and crossed oceans
to be a ” good mom”
she ignored strokes
and stayed poor
to be a good mom
she rocked me and made miracles happen to be a good mother
and she never really got her credit
because she was brown
because no one wondered why black women looking for aid
were always told about abortion
why she had to fight men off me in the street
why white women would pay her to parent their kids so they could be
MORE than a mom
but only if she was LESS than
so understadn the sheer RAGE this brings when someone who HAS FUCKING never
watched a parent be ill
be stunted
be fearful
be poor
die slowly
for the love a child because
women like Jessica Valenti look t the struggle they have to be parents
and say doing that is not enough to be loved
to be supported to not have to stifled
even after she kisses her babies on the top of the head and hands them to the nanny
(via deliciouskaek)
