Helpers Song
(For Clarita)
We come from the Land of Smiles & villages of shacks and laughter. From Burmese firelands & the memory of Pol Pot’s slaughter.
We care and nurture for your most precious possessions.
And daily we feed and hug and keen for our own babies left behind
remembered in tattered photos rarely seen.
We try to smile for you every day. Heads held high even when forced to keep four steps behind. An unpaid packhorse and slave in a supposed free land.
I am strong and vibrant. I have stories to tell. I am wise and beautiful and deserve freedom not a cell.
And still you fail to notice the smudges beneath my eyes. My rail like thinness beneath cheap cotton ties. Your eyes gloss over me,
I’m simply not there.
I am a woman just like you, my Ma’am.
But I am a woman who cares.
November 27, 2012 at 3:36 am
You are so very creative! I love your writing and plan to follow you! Best wishes,
Laura
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