{"id":12636,"date":"2020-01-29T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2021-01-09T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T12:50:01","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/01\/29\/the-poetry-snapshot-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

To my best friend. My love. My mother. My rock.
\nEverything happened so fast, I’m still in shock.
\nYou are the strongest person I will ever know.
\nNow I hold on to our memories, but they seem so long ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Playing Candy Crush at midnight,
\nTeaching me to drive,
\nWatching Rema dance at Ignite,
\nYou kept telling us “Live, don’t simply be alive.”<\/p>\n

\"\"You were always right,
\nbut I still liked to argue.
\nYou said, \u201ceverything will be alright,\u201d
\nI miss your advice.<\/p>\n

You always put others before you,
\nnever thought about it twice.
\nNow I hope you are finally at peace,
\nIn your own paradise.<\/p>\n

“I have cancer,” you said as a fact,
\nYet you didn’t shed a single tear, you stayed intact.
\nThrough all the treatments, the chemo, and pill,
\nYou still smiled and had such a strong will.<\/p>\n

You sacrificed everything for us.
\nYou worked hard for us.
\nYou hid back your tears from us.
\nBut you were taken away from us.<\/p>\n

Your beautiful smile,
\nYour quirky laugh,
\nYour ambition and drive,
\nI will always look up to you in awe.<\/p>\n

You taught me to be adventurous and wild,
\nYou were always the cool mom.
\nYou taught me to be gentle and kind,
\nDetermined and focused,
\nYou said, \u201chappiness is just a state of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

I cry, I wish, I hope
\nthat this is just a dream.
\nBecause you, Rema, and I, we were always a team.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019ll carry on your legacy.
\nFulfill all your wishes.
\nI know you\u2019re guiding me from above,
\nSo I\u2019ll be ambitious.<\/p>\n

You lived, you loved, you laughed.
\nThis I hope you see.
\nThe only question I have for you is,
\nAre you proud of me?<\/p>\n

Mommy you are my entire world,
\nYou are as precious as your black pearl.
\nEvery day I miss you more.<\/p>\n

Signed…Your Little Girl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

I wrote this poem almost 4 years ago. However, it resurfaced recently through a conversation. Over the course of the semester, I have been posting poems that have been reflective of the environment around me. It felt right to post this one right now as I’ve been finding moments that remind me of my mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To my best friend. My love. My mother. My rock. Everything happened so fast, I’m still in shock. You are the strongest person I will ever know. Now I hold on to our memories, but they seem so long ago. Playing Candy Crush at midnight, Teaching me to drive, Watching Rema dance at Ignite, You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15095,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions\/15095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}