A Mother’s Tears

A Villanelle

Violet DeTorres
Resistance Poetry
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1 min readJun 1, 2020

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She is strong and resilient, nothing gets by her

History has taught her much for all that she sees

Her pain and anguish for her lost child, she is now death’s connoisseur

Life has grown from within, she is love’s whisperer

And its just a matter of time she’ll teach them their ABC’s

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Violet DeTorres
Resistance Poetry

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House // " When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" --Maya Angelou