How much longer
are you going to look at me
until I reach
the destination you bless on
with the Shabbat candles
blessing?
A goal that you set for me
whose present and future use
that will be
absolutely uninhabitable
for me when you clap your hands together as a sign of
thanksgiving?
I told you not to bat
an eyelid towards girls of my age.
The difference revealed to you
there
about me being differentiated from them is
the burden of my life,
you’re not mentally prepared for it, and certainly
not to place me with them in the same
slot.
A healthy and normal relationship between a mother and her daughter
is an important factor in the daughter’s normal psychological development
you should know
that the common error among women is that having children means being a mother –
I would rather you understand what I mean on this issue
because that is not my intention.
You gave birth to me semi-premature
your breast milk was not secreted as a source of nutrition
that is sometimes the only dietary source
in the toddler’s first year –
I tried to appoint the cause to the indication
of the Caesarian operation that you gave birth to me
like a heroine
you were so beautiful when you held me in the picture,
but this information was prevented from me.
It is beyond me daughters who satisfy
their mothers’ will
I understand the source of their desire but not
the nature of the ability
to subordinate the good of the individual for the sake of the “common good” contradicts my theory, Mother! Which
emphasizes the individual’s sovereignty over his life –
even if we assume this “rule”, I cannot
change
I wish you had an alternative daughter and me the same
mother.
We have yet to find an alternative like this.