The Amazonian Empress of oxymoron
whose embrace is terrifying tender care
formed by warmth of love-filled anger,
whose bosom a reminder:
Serene Seas and Crushing Typhoons,
Bi-PoLar WeAtHer ColLiSions;
these gentle hands have caressed me to slumber
the same weapon of endless crying nights
The rolled-up sleeve poster of Woman Empowerment
“You can do it!” was tattooed inside her
sleepless centuries toiling at accounting books
for her only child’s Catholic school:
A teaching of yearning.
A memorization of misunderstanding.
A graduation of grief.
She dared not count the birthdays passed,
basketball games gone nor milestones missed;
for a breadwinner must always win
tallying her loss was but a losing cause
The weeping obra of David set in the stars:
a fatherless mother floating in space,
a husbandless wayfarer gravitation-less,
a sister lost in the constellation of Cancer,
a Brother and in-law assailed by the asteroid belt;
Ten thousand total solar eclipses in one particle of anti-matter,
covering the whole Earth in shade
her Virgo celestial body thrown into Death’s blackhole
An evanescence of emotion
A void of volition
Bellowing! Bawling!
My lunar Mother Mary in Golgotta
Ruby tears burning her cheeks
Drip! Drip!
drip.
It melts a crater into the ground
a bloody meteor penetrating the mantle,
Till it reaches hellfire
and even there
Demons and Beelzebub dare not touch it.
Her Royal Majesty of the Kingdom of suffering
constant was her silence,
constant was her wailing,
until what seemed like millenia on Mars,
until what seemed like a myriad of God’s miracles,
My mama ascended her living limbo.
The mystical mestiza muse of Mona Lisa,
years have trudgingly passed
two indifferent oceans now separate us
the immigrant burden still covering our scars
but now she conjures a soulful smile
that brings me back decades;
To the wooden-tiled room when mother and child
made a garden of play and laughter,
When they planted joy
And reaped each other,
Her gregarious grin
An fruit of the past
A matriarchal mango sweeter than anything else
When I was in her womb
And she was
in my life.