A hapless mother rocked recklessly to soothe her baby.
The infant howls finding no comfort in these fitful movements
Years go by until society shames her in return for her child who one day be
A mother who denied her child comfort instead sought her own amusements
At a glance, there appears to be a bond because the daughter is dutiful.
The clumsy, hurtful dancing between mother and daughter is clear to the eye of a wounded soul.
In the end, the mother treats the daughter as a tree clinging as does a marsupial
The daughter breaks free of the mother's tedious cajole.
She leaves the mother behind to save her mother from her own hapless care
Her mother is happy in the illusion of reality she has created.
The daughter knows better and has done better, so she has proven she is not a hapless heir.
The pain, grief, criticisms, loss, and disappointment are in the daughter's heart plaited.
It's time for the daughter to leave the mother in her place of happiness that the mother denied her child.
The same society tries to shame the daughter to honor an empty bond, both were wronged.
The sirens of imagined shackles of child and mother womanhood failed to leave the daughter beguiled.
If that child had just been left with her true mother, none of this pain would have been prolonged.
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