My Mother & I - Lucy Dacus

My mother hates her body

We share the same outline

She swears that she loves mine

I blur at the edges

I’m all soft shapes and lines

Shapeshifting all the time

The stars have a lot to say

About babies born in the month of May

We are down to Earth

We see eye to eye

We dig our feet in

My mother and I

My mother and I

They called me an old soul

When I was too young to know

The difference between a soul and a ghost

I feared what was inside

Trapped in my body kept from the other side

A spirit searching for her second life

The stars have a lot to say

About women born in the month of May

We want love

Warm and forever

We want to die in the presence of our loved ones

My mother and I

My mother and I

All she has given

All I have taken

All is forgiven

All is forsaken