This Poem is in honor of Mamaz/Este Poema es en honor a las madres

This poem is in honor of mothers

(The "anthem" i wrote for the welfareQUEEN's theatre production- dedicated to my fellow QUEEN's Vivian, Jewnbug, Queenandi, Tracey, Estrella, Dharma and Laure and especially my Mama dee - for without whom there would be no me)

(Espanol sigue)
 

This poem is honor of mothers…

Houseless mothers and poor mothers

Low-wage mothers and no-wage mothers

Welfare mothers

And three job working mothers

migrante mothers

And incarcerated mothers

 

in other words

this poem is honor of

INS-ed with,

CPS withed and

Most of all

system messed with

mothers

 

This poem is honor of all those poor women and men

And yes I said men cause don’t sing me that old song

About gender again

 

Who fight and struggle 

And steal and beg

in every crevasse

And corner to keep their kids in a bed

Who dress and feed with tired hands

Who answer cries over and over again

 

This poem is in honor of those

Mothers who deserve to be coddled

And loved ,

Fed and protected

Instead of criminalized,

Marginalized

and rarely respected

 

Who can barely make it but always do

And still raise all the worlds' people

Like me you and you

 

Can I get a witness?

This poem is honor of mothers

Who can barely make it but sometimes do

And still raise all the worlds' people

Like me, and you and you