{"id":2331,"date":"2017-03-02T05:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:53:34","slug":"my-mothers-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2017\/03\/my-mothers-daughter","title":{"rendered":"My Mother\u2019s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Chinwe Olive Egbuta (Transcorp)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Was she like me? I wondered.<\/p>\n

When my lips pressed against his,<\/p>\n

I wondered if she had many men to kiss.<\/p>\n

Was it just father she had?<\/p>\n

Or were others enchanted over her reticent prowess?<\/p>\n

I have come to encounter some men who admired Johnny for marrying her.<\/p>\n

When I obsessed over my features?<\/p>\n

I wondered how hers might have made her irate.<\/p>\n

From our sensitive skin, I could feel past and present lay parallel as I feel my body.<\/p>\n

Wondering why my mother was on my skin.<\/p>\n

For to have her DNA, I certainly was existing in some cell.<\/p>\n

So when each dermis was replaced, I still remained.<\/p>\n

Those that regenerated became me.<\/p>\n

When I wondered about my identity at age 26.<\/p>\n

Did she wonder what marriage to Johnny would be like at that age?<\/p>\n

To have held and to have let go of hers prematurely.<\/p>\n

I wonder if my temperament is as similar to hers.<\/p>\n

I wonder if my endurance will ever be like hers.<\/p>\n

To fight like her, I perceive like a formidable scent my inability.<\/p>\n

For her to be modest when times I want to be indifferent.<\/p>\n

With it all, when I measure the differences, I am still my mother\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n

Maybe living alike in this space, with our similar proclivities and skin.<\/p>\n

And then me existing in an alternate dimension,<\/p>\n

Where I get to exist, forming an identity for my daughter, to either accept or deny.<\/p>\n

With time, truths revealed and narratives visited and revisited,<\/p>\n

I have come to form opinions of who my mother is.<\/p>\n

I have come to accept her opinions that are contrary to mine.<\/p>\n

For I am my mother\u2019s daughter, and I am me.<\/p>\n

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