From the Distance of Our Separation

May 8, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 10.

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A Mother’s Day poem from a grownup child looking back with love at a difficult adolescence:

From the distance of our separation

I see the whole of which I was a part;

I see the way my temper tore your heart,

And then the love beneath the laceration.

I see the landscape shaping our relation:

Your fear that I might choose with little art,

My anger at the dreams you would impart,

The ancient paths that lead to confrontation.

But knowledge needn't linger in regret,

Nor wait upon some wind to clear its sky.

We are none the worse for what is gone.

The moments that I never will forget

Are those whose careless grace must make me cry,

Safe within a heart forever won.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/4: Mothers Are the Archetypes of Love

5/5: I Know I’m No Replacement for a Child

5/6: Although a Daughter, I Write This as a Mother

5/7: Daughters-in-Law Are Our Grandchildren’s Mothers

5/8: From the Distance of Our Separation