Mother and daughters

I drew this inspired by one of Arlene Lopes' poems, she's a Brazilian writer. I've translated the poem from Portuguese to English, you can read the translation below, or the original here shorturl.at/rzCQ1.

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Every woman withdraws a little each time she becomes a mother

Mother is a woman expelled from herself

Every mother is a crossroads
doubt, fear, overload, pressure

A mother's intimate world is a constant dread

Mother is imperfection, anguish, guilt, remorse

When daughters become mothers, they discover - albeit belatedly -
that every mother ruins the lives of her sons and daughters to some degree

Every mother is the target of anger

Mother is offense
guilty and condemned

eternal
a big mistake
that doesn’t fit within any forgiveness

Women who don’t crave motherhood
become more and more women and independent
but never released from the mother that one day they will recognise
on their own face before the mirror

Mothers hover, emerge, surface

Mother is a biological problem
There is no escape from the mother's flesh

Mother is the inner darkness of her sons and daughters

Every mother is idealised
none is the expected result

they transform
Turn into weight
become useless

Every mother is perishable

- Arlene Lopes -

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