𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗥𝗬: “My Greatest Prison” by Chrisian Jaira Barles

 

Layout by: Chrisian Jaira Barles

Published by: Rose Ann Gatdula

Date Published: March 8, 2024

Time Published: 4:30 PM

Category: Poetry

Theme: A child's eternal, unconditional love for their mother.

I have loved you from my very first heart beat.

It is hard-wired in my veins, pulsing through every fiber of my being.

Yet you were the first to make my heart split,

leaving me burning in pain, barely breathing.

But I took it in stride,

shut my mouth, fists clenched by my side.

For what daughter am I, if I cannot take the lashings of my mother?

Feared that if I cried out, you’d leave me for another.

I reckon I was doomed from the start,

always yearning, searching, for you.

I could study you, bit by bit, part by part,

only to find that your love is a different hue.

But I stood, and still stand through it all, no rhyme or reason,

for there is no greater love, no greater prison.