Four Mothers


By Georgina Johnson
Eve you call to me, sweet living dead

naked in sorrow and ecstasy

timelessly craving freedom for all.

When shackled in darkness

where love spills ungreeted,

when thorns screech the madness,

you beckon me lose still more.

As if healing moves

through your side of mortal.


Hearing melodies of daughters

and wanting to expel

the discord we left unchecked.

Mother, I know it's senseless

forgiving crimes unfelt,

but I, harbinger of guilt

find ancestral banquets now.


The ache of lost compassion

fashions pain to gold.

A bellowing rose pink wind

splinters forgiven light

as we learn to allow

a beauty so abundant

that merciless blessings run free.


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