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[osjedi]

hi, I like to write
Po
Ems
poem to my mommy
mom
I haven't forgotten
that my name
is etched
in the mango tree
in our yard
the one that
stands tall
and proud
the one
that dropped
its fruit
on your boy friends
car
smashing the window
I climbed high up one night
with a knife
carved out my name
with a poem
underneath
that reads
"one day
I'll leave
the land
where the rain drops dance on zinc roofs
where the ocean has hidden treasures
of a time long forgotten
where the sun
beats on your back
like moses wandering the desert
I'll leave
but I won't forget
the waves that called out my name
the starfish
that wandered onto our porch
my sister
my brothers
the fact
that I was once
a brown golden
child
covered in dirt
that crawled out of the mud
to awake in your open arms"