Conflict Mother Daughter Poems

For Silent One's - Mamma Poetry Contest

Where is the love, Mamma?

Through broken Louvre blinds, you're ever watching
Rosary beads clicking prayers on repeat mode, uttering
Your plethora...

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Killing me will not save you 
Saving me will not kill you
Without a choice we’ll be stagnate forever.
We will never get out of this hell...

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In the moment
When she felt utterly hopeless
When there was no other way out
In the moment of distress 
she couldn't keep her wits about

When she tried...

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Its hailing on your grave my child, a loud and deafening sound.
I want to be there, Its pointless I know for after all its just...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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No late night talk shows
 can't go to the movies anymore 
child can't go to the park
 and the playground is closed
 day noon and...

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The way you now treat me

sadly composed my plea

for shared love to guide us

with hearts that silence fuss.

I miss the you I knew 

and you...

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Somewhere along the way we lost it
and I cry wondering if I could have stopped it.

Just my hindsight saw it all unfold.
For years now it...

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Every sound
Every breath
Every flicker
Every flutter
Every tear to come
I could unravel for you

Not one step
Or ache
Or choice
Or fear
Or desire
I wouldn’t unravel for you

The shade of your...

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Sorting through photos
And things she gave me
Throughout the years,
My chest becomes heavy
And my throat seizes
As the pain of our reality
Digs into me.
Innocuous things like 
a...

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My feet crush the eggshells
Scattered all over the floor,
A mistake I always seem to make
As soon as I come in the door.

Panic rises in my...

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Why did you kick me out at 14?
I find this highly disturbing and obscene.
I had nowhere to go and you sent me on my way...

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...It wasn’t easy living out on her own,
she was young and she made her mistakes,
went to night school to learn to cut hair,
and in the...

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Lucinda Brown was only seventeen
when you youth came to a dreadful end,
that was the night her home was invaded
by three vicious and horny young men.

When...

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The Seconds 

[Excerpts]

 
(c) 2019, Anita Lerek
 
 
 
Section 1/4

First Generation - Before the Holocaust 

 
Lvov, Poland 1930s.  Mother, you were a...

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