We know you too

Jennifer Dafwat

When you battle
It is against yourself
When you win
You’ve outdone yourself
you’re never satisfied with your less
but your little is good unless
your good is belittled. and yes,
you’re a mustard seed
now see how you’ve branched
the finger of small beginnings
you have kissed every part of me
without your lips.
And when the world sprinkles mud
your tears are wash water
lover of every mother
mother to every other
another choice lover
when to love is to offer
such suffering
and i have been meaning to ask
that that night you buried doubt
did you mean it when you said
no one could ever dig it out?

leonell