My First Heart Break

They say a mother’s love is all encompassing
A mother’s love is power
A mother’s love gives sustenance
A mother’s love heals wounds
A mother’s love embraces the heart and soul

She birthed me
She raised me
She fed me
She loved me
But never as much as she did my kin

She birthed her before me
She put her on a pedestal
She nourished her
Mind body and soul
She adored her
More than she ever did me

They say a mother’s love is all encompassing
But my mother’s love is fickle and conditional

A mother’s love gives power
But my mother’s love makes me weak and frail

A mother’s love gives sustenance
But my mother’s love leaves me yearning and famished

A mother’s love heals all wounds
But my mother’s love breaks me and creates deep gashes

A mother’s love embraces your heart and soul
But my mother’s love shatters my heart and cracks open my soul

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