Poetry – By Seraphina Mallon-Breiman

Here’s a little something I wrote in honor of poetry month!

The Relationship Between Me and My Mother : The relationship between me and my mother is one none other than that of poetic intrigue We cuss and we fight and we get super mad but we also love each other and somehow smother those bossy contrite fights that drag us downward But that relationship between me and my mother is something one can’t quite utter a single clear defined concept in describing what is entailed Because she’s so judgmental and i’m an only child and we both forget what it’s like to live  with a guy in the house So we struggle and juggle our muddled beliefs about how things should be for a  mom and her kid when her kid is becoming less of a kid and she as a mother is becoming none other than one of those older women who have conversations about how they’d like to become romantic again  But they’re too busy and meanwhile time is speeding up and each hair is becoming whiter and bones ache more than they used to after they come home from their weekly yoga class and people forget how quickly  time passes And the relationship between me and my mother is getting shorter because soon i’ll move away and sitting on the couch  watching ‘Gilmore Girls’ will be harder than it was  when i was twelve And soon we’ll forget why we fought because it wont  really matter that much