“Inheritance” – Warsan Shire

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Where did you get those big eyes?
My mother.

And where did you get those lips?
My mother.

And the loneliness?
My mother.

And that broken heart?
My mother.

And the absence, where did you get that?
My father.

“Inheritance” Warsan Shire (via prideinthepanther)

 

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