-2023- - Your Mother-s Son

That’s the part he never understood. That’s the part you’re only now learning to hold.

You are not him. You know this. You haven’t run. You haven’t raised your voice in anger—not like that. You show up. You call her every Sunday. You are trying. Your Mother-s Son -2023-

You used to swear you’d be nothing like him. The slammed doors. The silence that filled a room like smoke. The way he loved her—fierce, then fractured, then not at all. You built yourself in opposition: softer, louder with your feelings, quicker to say I’m sorry . You thought love was a choice you could make differently. That’s the part he never understood

But here’s the truth no one tells you: becoming your mother’s son means carrying the ghost of the man she once loved. And in 2023, with the world burning softly and time moving like a fever dream, you finally understand—you’re not afraid of becoming him. You’re afraid that you already are, and that maybe, just maybe, she sees him when she looks at you. You know this