Mother-less

This piece is offered in response to prompt Mag 31 at Magpie Tales



Mother-less

(bastard’s lament)

•

undesired
discarded
thrown away

though whole
sound
and useful

no matter

labeled mistake
misbegotten
unfortunate

shown the back

outside
looking in

left behind

alone
by the side
of life’s road
to endure
the harsh weather
of abandonment

tried
convicted
sentenced for life
to suffer confusion
shame
the sorrow
of the unwanted

condemned

guilty only
of the crime
of inconvenience

• • •

rob kistner © 2010

24 thoughts on “Mother-less”

  1. My father was put out for adoption when he was six months old, then his adoptive parents put him into foster care at age four because they found they could have their own children. Despite two such slaps, he was an incrdibly gentle loving man who loved music and laughter above all things, exvept the family he created.

    Elizabeth

    1. I align with your father ElizaBeth, including his love of music and laughter — in the end, it is not what you’re given when you arrive, it’s what you create and leave behind… like your dad, I made my own loving family…

      …rob

  2. Your powerful words bring out every ounce of my nuturing maternal instinct to compensate! I’d like to send a retrospective hug, if you see what I mean?! 🙂

  3. Dear Rob: Really moving and honest piece. Words hurt and so does the way society has a tendency to label an innocent child’s status. Thank-goodness this is changing. It was so much worse 50 years ago. Today, we remove those hurtful words that come from close-mindedness. Thank-you for this! No one is truly motherless. We all have mothers.

    1. Self-love/respect and actualization is key to mental and emotional health — but it is exceedingly difficult to know how to love one’s self when you’ve never known the feeling, and been repeatedly ‘programmed’, by word and deed, to believe you are not worthy… huge barriers BK…

      …rob

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