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Mother's Wound

a poem on pain and possibility

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Sarita Doe
May 10, 2026
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I often drift into query on how this chokehold of patriarchy came to be. Are there unhealed mother wounds causing so many men to abuse women and the Earth? Are they getting passed down through the mamas and exacerbated when they aren’t getting the support needed to raise another human?

Do these wounds come from being part of the mother, idealizing them, …

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