A black mothers sacrifice

Broken cries diluted the still waters A mothers pain as she prepares a better life for her daughter Her bones ached with exhaustion Her fractured breathing heavy with guilt Buy she knew this was the right decision She wraps her baby in a blanket made of love and sacrifice She hoped these feelings would be carried into her child's next life I'm the early morn before the rising of the sun She sung lullabies from her mother She learned Before giving her only child a tender kiss on her forehead Then ending her last moment with a hug Her child's cries drowned out by the silence of freedom Her child sunk to her watery grave Protected from ever becoming a slave She was born to be free And that all her mother ever wanted her to be Her love for her daughter transcended time She felt a hole in her chest As if she had been hit with a bullet But she would do it again if it protected her daughter from enslavement Even if it meant the loss of her child would break her But a mother love is selfless It's why her daughter kanoa had to be let go Her name important, her name meant the 'free one' Her daughter the epitome of freedom