I am who I am because of her
I come from the dull brown of my mother's eyes
Watching over me when my eyes see darkness
Her warmth throwing me back into reality
I come from the love of my mother's tight, long embrace
I am the answer for her pain that increases the lines etched upon her face
These lines that spill her sufferings out during her troubled, restless nights
These lines that push me further to lift her hunched shoulders
Lift her bowed head toward my never fading light and ease her pain
One day I will wipe away from her face the waterfall of hopelessness
and replace it with a river of hope and salvation
One day I will show the world that I am that girl who shoots bullets
into the sky and makes doorways of freedom, hope and relief
Not only for my mother but for all those out there are who in need.
Daughters of Destiny