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Woman on Fire
from AmLit Spring 2023
by AmLit
Anonymous when you recognize your mother in the reflection and see it is her you are becoming why is it terror that courses through your veins why do you fear becoming the woman who claimed a white hot anger and a fire of a thousand suns why do you dread becoming this woman as if she did not bear you on her hips and through them perhaps you believe you will love a man like your mother loved your father until you are nothing but an ember a measly flame hopeless of being stoked into the inferno you were you remember your mother was the sun once, too