Excerpts From A Book I'll Never Write

curse & blessing

I carry my mother's purse now, her bag, her books, her shoes that didn't actually fit, her cards, her secrets, the way she cried to me after finding out about father's alleged affairs, about my brother who hit his friend at school, i carry her pain, her anger, her sadness, i carry her hopes, aspirations and all of her backlogged dreams that would never ever ever got to become

— the curse and blessing of a daughter