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My Mothers Legacy

Mother, have you gifted me with the heritage of your insanity? In the 20 years you've been gone, I've fought to prove you wrong. Smug and secure in my piety, I have purged myself of your obscenity. The further along this road I travel, the more my belief in your inherent evil begins to unravel, and I've come to learn you did your best to earn my respect and love, and to nurture me along into a woman brave and strong. Had you any idea you were projecting onto me your inadequacies? The crushing weight of your love smothering the life you gave to me? Now, 20 years later, I can no longer run from your legacy. Saddened I never had a daughter, I've come to realize you were she, and I struggled to raise you up, but you died before I ever had a chance. The doctors' said it was cancer, but we both know that in the end; it was the ordinariness of life that did you in.

Copyright © October 2000 Meg Green


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