Image is Beulah’s Baby by Primrose McPherson Paschal
This is a poem of the words my mother spoke to me in a dream. I had been missing her with a vengeance. Not long after, I became pregnant with my second daughter. I had needed these words from my mom.
TELL THEM I WAS
YOUR BIGGEST FAN
THAT I FOUGHT
WARS FOR YOU
SHOUTED YOUR PRAISES
DEFENDED YOUR FAULTS
AND YOUR RIGHT TO BE WRONG
LAUGHED OUT LOUD WITH YOU
PLAYED YOUR GAMES
AND A FEW OF MY OWN
TELL THEM HOW MUCH
YOU LOVED ME
AND ALL I
LEARNED
FROM
LOVING
YOU
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