By Xavier Bugos
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The mother whose tender fingers takes their
time through her child’s hair,
Because her heart knows one day he’ll be
too old for her affection,
Will spend every last moment shaping her
child,
To be the best that he can be.
Even when the others scowl at him,
When their wrath feels heavy as the sins on
one's back.
She teaches her child not to cower nor
weep,
But to flourish his rage and let him
overcome.
The mother nurtures her child's pain with
watering support.
His flowering wrath is a sight for sore
eyes.
No longer do the children taunt him,
But now they hide and fear,
As his rage is too much to tame,
For a child who never learned control.
So she watches, first with love
Then with care,
And then finally, a growing concern
As her once happy, babbling tot,
Is turned to a boy with a lust for revenge.
She couldn’t have predicted
That fateful, heat tainted day
When her boy was pushed for the last time
And his anger grew destructive.
Like a hellish volcano spewing out hatred
Or a hound from the depth of Hades howling
his wrath.
The boy erupted the ground below them,
And smothered his home under fire and ash.
And as the black flecks of his revenge,
Swept down over his remorseful gaze.
His mother, running her tender fingers
through his hair,
hid her precious boy in her arms.
Praying her frail bones,
Would protect him from the fate awaiting.
And as the boy clung to his goddess.
Her skin scorched and boiled
Her blood sizzled and steamed,
Turning to congealed drops
Decorating his darkened skin.
And as their homeland was buried
with the boy’s ego and pride
He clung to the remnants under the soot,
Of the mothers loving ashes.
About the Author
Xavier Bugos is in his second and final year of ICC as well as his senior year of high school. Xavier is an avid writer who has enjoyed forming countless stories and fantasies in his time. After long days of studying and working, Xavier often enjoys playing games like dungeons and dragons where he can explore the world of the creative and passionate. He often expresses more of this creativity through his writings.