Poem #2 - Mommy Y? (A Poem a day...National poetry day)


In honor of National Poetry Month I will be sharing a poem a day. Yesterday I shared this poem She is gone Now - a poem about my grandmother succumbing to Alzheimer's. The following poem appears in my first volume of poetry The Organist's Daughter published in 2007 by Bandit Queen Press. 

 Mommy Y?

Mommy why the sun so hot &
 the sky so blue mommy?
Tell me mommy
Why am I me
& mommy why are you you?

Mommy why are you black
& daddy white?
why is left called left
And the right, right?

Mommy why
Are you so mad
Anyway
When you’ve just been
Given another day &

Mommy are things
In the movies real
Or do those
Characters really
Never feel?

Mommy
Why is it people
Die and fat 
bumblebees
They can fly?

Mommy
Tell me once again
What happens when
You die? Mommy,
Are you going to die? 
Mommy?

Mommy why can’t
I hear so good?
Why do people
Read newspapers
Instead of books?

Mommy why is
America so big
& Denmark so
small?

Why do people fight?
They don’t get
Along at all.

Why is money
So hard to come by?
Why do little babies
Sometimes die?

Mommy why are baby swans
Brown
And their mommy’s
White?

Why is it so hard
for you to ride a bike?

Mommy why do people
kill animals
& America got so many guns?

Why do people make war?
That don’t sound like no fun!

Mommy why are people
Mean to other people
And some people don’t
Have homes,

I don’t know mommy
You adults seem
To have it all Wrong!

Mommy, it seems like
We children should have this world
To run!


--Tisvilde, May 2007

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