Mother

Mother

I love you Mother,

We met at my birth

and, again on your last days.

Thank you for life.

You died so I could live.

Initiated into performing a rites of passage.

You were a blessed soul with a hard life so that I could see the corruption of this world.

The sexual abuse to children, the abuse of the system, the abuse of the Indigenous.

Thank you for this wisdom.

I love you Mother.

You are my greatest ancestor.

~ Your baby,
Anita
Darlene Pearl Obichon
August 8, 1969 - June 16, 2020