Forgive Me Daughter Poems

Am I not Jerusalem?
Did I not give myself to many?
I chose to lay with wolves
And apart from you was broken;
I confessed my great transgressions,
You were...

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By mystic river's waters,
Shielding mountains, illuminating sun,
With clear jade, embrace unintentional mistakes.
Within five kowtow, seeking heavenly 
Kindness beneath.

Just like this, Fuqin kowtow five times to,
'Mountain...

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Look mama, your daughter appears happy, but is slowly dying inside. She is suffering in silence just tryna get by. She learns to build up...

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There are moments when the world seems too vast, and our hearts too small to hold it all.

Yet here I am, sitting by the window...

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It’s sad to see you now
With trembling wrinkles,
And somber gray hair…

It feels like a shadow 
Has crept in around my thoughts,
Pouring darkness over the moments,
Destroying...

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I'm sitting here with lots to say
But silence most likely is the best way 
Thoughts so dark, even im scared 
A problem halved, but no...

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Forgive me sweet girl for putting you through hell 
For the times you were crying as I went off to jail 
Did I even love...

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Mothers Unconditional Love  
Written by Debbie Hernandez July 30 2024  

A mothers love is unconditional no matter what her children will say or...

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Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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Drink the poison from my blood, breathe the rot from my lungs.
Take all that has been decaying inside me and nurse it to health like...

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Attitude with latitude

originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic

Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours...

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It's time that I regain control
for I have given you too much
the past will take an endless toll
if I stay here inside its clutch

a child’s...

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She gently climbed upon my lap,
A nine-year-old with curly blonde hair,
Waking me from a pleasant nap,
And said, “Daddy, I want to know why.”

Tearing sleepy cobwebs...

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# If I had a daughter…

I’m going to tell her that I’ll always be there for her,
Ready to listen when no one hears her,
Lend her...

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Tired of trying,
Tired of lying,
Tired of hearing it's not your fault,
Stop stalling,
Stop calling,
Every missed text,
Every missed message,
Do not reply it's not worth her time,
It's not...

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