For My Mama
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For My Mama Lyrics
And suddenly, it was not the sum of her parts but
one part that became what
defined a torso, a chest, the flesh
of a woman or a mother,
or pauses hidden in bone marrow,
we all revolved around her diagnosis
like the planets around the sun,
not for light or life
but for something that would explain
how we should gather
our limbs, in sync with the precisely
timed grief of treatments
“working”, and present them --
as tools or sacrifices for the course
of actions to eat away at,
it became necessary to
breathe out our selfishness
in the air we could take
for ourselves, pump youth
down into the pores at the
very surface of our fingertips
and renounce them as only
one more thing that used to be
our own
one part that became what
defined a torso, a chest, the flesh
of a woman or a mother,
or pauses hidden in bone marrow,
we all revolved around her diagnosis
like the planets around the sun,
not for light or life
but for something that would explain
how we should gather
our limbs, in sync with the precisely
timed grief of treatments
“working”, and present them --
as tools or sacrifices for the course
of actions to eat away at,
it became necessary to
breathe out our selfishness
in the air we could take
for ourselves, pump youth
down into the pores at the
very surface of our fingertips
and renounce them as only
one more thing that used to be
our own
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