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Gravity like my mother
Gravity holds me down,
tethers steps on the ground
To everywhere I am found.
Every tictoc of the clock
She protects me like a shield
Avoiding the unknown,
pressing down when I fall.
Maybe that’s why I can’t soar
Sometimes I wish gravity had been gone
So I could fly unbound and heedlessly.
There are many places I wish to be
I yearn to feel weightless and free
It will always be in her nature
to hold me down,
And it will be in mine
To defy.
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To my mother whom I love for her compassion and care. Through the years of my teenage defiance, we've went through a mountainous journey of arguments and reconnection. This poem is decidated to her.