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BYE MA HI MA

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BYE MA HI MA – 17/10/2022

Sweet taste of our curls under finger, strands of whispery blond blowing past sense

She used to lick our eye inside the socket if something got in it

She used to walk us up large hills playing music with grass between our hands

Marvel at the inside of a buttercup

Creak open church doors smell the wet concrete see the sky expanding over beautiful sandy beach

Wonderful all of us together

Dads shorts and Olympic trainers green and white striped bow legged

Full of racous laughter

We were a unit and I used to glance at those outside without explanation

We just were

I was safe – I am safe, although we have dispersed like an old melted elastic band

Twisting and curling looking at each other, sometimes in the eye

Sometime just part of an old old story

She used to sing to me Irish Proverbs and leave books on princesses by my bed after reading grand tales with sales, pirates and me sailing high on the ships sails

I kept them precious when I slipped under the door of the ganglands

My new found breasts and length of hair, long legs seemed to carry me there without my conscious in tow

She left me then she did not comprehend

The scorn from her own childhood lying heavy on her chest which was held and overlooked and kept safe by her husband

With the tobacco pouch and whisky bottle

Which she swallowed

I hear her asthma and hold her hand like autumn leaf now we are best of friends

Yet I am inflamed inside from the drugs alchohol and sex

Detox many times only to arrive at a nasaly snort

I resort to ask myself am I grieveing you this gap?

I grieve you ma like gritty hard knobbly wall that my skin is scraped across

Blood stains on sheets as I feel the womb clear and happy and joyful

As my little ones here and I would never been able to leave like you did

I know the child in you knew only to run

Run from the drugs in your childs system, run from the man lying her down who clowned with drugs, run from her drop in grammar and ladylike mannerism

Run as if I had run down your genes and slipped them into a pocket of someone dragged up

Born in a barn

Run

Was it in shame? Or forgetting only remembering when the pirate princess returned waving her flag for the underdog holding in comfort the suicidal

Allowing a care coordinator to probe into those ganglands

And she says

Oh sweetheart such death such grief

Sweet irony of words

I found it. Held bodies in my arms

Seeing your eyes in the distance.  Revoking me.

 

 

 

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Newpanther says:

Lord... The imagery... the flow Totally captivated...

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Sassy says:

Thank you New Panther, it's one of those poems you wish you could show to your ma but instead it goes on public view....
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mlowe5 says:

Profound! Deep captivating imaged and thought=provoking flow ironing out keloid-like memories of what was once a mystery. A beautiful allegorical tribute and awareness revelation. Remain the beautiful liberated soul you have evolved into. Thanks for the share, Sassy Peace and Love.

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