My Mother's Legacy Poem by Susan T. Aparejo

As conciousness uncovered,
A woman clang kneeling,
hugging the trousers,
a man at rage,
she teared all over.
blank covered me.
Confusion enthralled me.

My first glance of the world,
Terror struck me,
The incident shaken me,
though I never understand,
my emotion told me,
there's an error of my existence.

Days passed I knew,
My surfacing is a moss,
None cares, so do my brothers.
who cares not even my sisters,
dirt' they called us,
throw stones of belittling,
salivating the pay,
to feel the world is empty
as we are enemy.

Tears rolled the highways,
she is there witnessing,
she just advice to be humble,
let them pass, ignore,
don't fight back.
I argued, she is firm.
she was beaten,
I am harden.
Deep, deep deep,
inside me a boiling fire grow,
she knew but appealed me,
I still stood firmly,
to revenge for her,
yet, she said be kind.
she said forgive,
she said forget,
she said be good, kind
she said accept,
let go, and let live,
in the realm of God's patience,
because God called her
' Paciencia'!