Epistle to Ma—Address: Beneath\Above Earth.
Epistle to Ma—Address: Beneath/Above Earth.
I miss the bone of my
Bone & flesh of my flesh
My very gentle potter
Hands soft as silk
Voice as a soft flow of mango
Juice down the pharynx.
I miss the love of my life
With a lump in my heart I
Confess that my memory fails me—
I have just hazy photos of you like
Our old lantern that always flickered;
Your voice is now a dream I’ll give all
To remember, like a stubborn word Dangling at the tip of my tongue— Joy is now a strange tongue
I hope you receive this letter, Ma.
I write to you with my tears & beg you:
Visit me in my sleep,
one last time.
I crave to have my fingers comb your hair, one last time.
Call me auta & johnna( Joh-nahh)
one last time.
Get angry, drum at my back, twist my ears,
one last time.
Breathe...one last time.
Before you blow to oblivion & die
A final death ( our old lamp died, eventually)
Like grandma’s wind-obsessed corn chaffs,
Before the favour of the weak whisper in the wind
I get as a response dies to a sickening stillness & the hazy pictures be as a windowless room in a moonless night,
I swear to love & cherish & cherish & love
You—till we meet to part no more.
Love,
Johnna.
About this poem
This poem is an unedited outpouring of my emotions—my fears and ache— when I realized the memories of my mum ( died 2012) were becoming fainter by the day. It was like I was loosing her again.
Submitted by johnt.08173 on August 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,695 |
Words | 272 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 5, 6, 2, 7, 1, 5, 2 |
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