Mother's Daughter by Gabryella Rodrigues

Red ruby drops of sweet 

bounded by the stains of sin 

crystalline knowledge 

her pain eclipsed by facades. 

contortions of self, 

devotion floods 

unyielding adoration set for 

a gaze infused with sunbeams 

lost at sea 

she seeks no one 

ribbons of wrath 

innocence wanes 

and if you would feel her 

see the craters of the moon in her heart housing letters to the rain. 

I mirror fate 

from birth destined silhouettes in waiting obscured lucidity dawning 

what could have been 

what might be 

cinnamon divine 

our souls a tapestry 

woven together 

bonded. 

I have been daughter 

for I am hers 

my hips my smile 

for she is a mother’s daughter 

An ebb of her mother 

ancestors rage we bleed 

destined mirrors 

I am 

daughter 

and not her.