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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 664381" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Had she not known how you loved her, Copa...<em>she would never have spoken those words.</em> This is as terrible a thing as what Serenity's mom did in condemning Serenity in her Will.</p><p></p><p>This is a torture device, Copa. Your mom had to know how this would hurt you, how it would make it impossible for you to dispose of her ashes. Honor her and yourself, Copa. No garbage heap for your mom.</p><p></p><p>D H sister wants her ashes to be released on the wind that comes up before a thunder storm.</p><p></p><p>That is beautiful imagery.</p><p></p><p>Your mom chose these words, chose this terrible imagery, to elicit pity, Copa. Not compassion. Not honor for your blood and your genetic line and your life.</p><p></p><p>I would not be able to move before those words either, Copa.</p><p></p><p>They would freeze me in place, forever a imprisoned ~ some crucial part of the spirit in me forever, for always, for eternity itself ~ imprisoned in pity.</p><p></p><p>Pity is a useless thing, Copa.</p><p></p><p>That is what your mom did to you. Just as Serenity's mom found the weapon to pummel Serenity into the shape she demanded Serenity accept as her own, both as a Child and after the Witch Mother's death.</p><p></p><p>Just as my mother will do everything in her power to do to me.</p><p></p><p>My mother, my sister.</p><p></p><p>Our patterns, the patterns in the lives of the three of us, are too similar for me to doubt that my mother is planning her revenge even now. I do not know what the thing will be.</p><p></p><p>I know I will be entrapped by it as surely as you have, and as Serenity too, has been.</p><p></p><p>And I will not be able to change it or heal it or move from beneath it, either.</p><p></p><p>But oh, boy, I can see the trap your mom, and Serenity's mom too, laid for each of you.</p><p></p><p><em>Then will I rise from your damned ashes</em></p><p><em>phoenix strong</em></p><p><em>and whole</em></p><p></p><p>Whatever poem those lines go with? That poetry was written years ago, and it was written for me, so that I can survive whatever it is going to be. And the only weapon I have is faith. I am meant to be whole.</p><p></p><p>My mother will do everything in her power to prevent that, to hurt me from the grave, as yours has and as Serenity's has, too.</p><p></p><p>I am glad I have come to know this.</p><p></p><p>It will strengthen me, when my time comes. And when it does? Hatred will not help me, then. Like always, the power to defeat it will be love. Of trusting that kind of love Maya Angelou describes so beautifully. It will be a question of knowing that, and of believing in it with our whole hearts.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p><p></p><p>What in the world was the matter with our mothers, that they do these things, that they willfully commit these kinds of betrayals, against the lives of their own daughters?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 664381, member: 17461"] Had she not known how you loved her, Copa...[I]she would never have spoken those words.[/I] This is as terrible a thing as what Serenity's mom did in condemning Serenity in her Will. This is a torture device, Copa. Your mom had to know how this would hurt you, how it would make it impossible for you to dispose of her ashes. Honor her and yourself, Copa. No garbage heap for your mom. D H sister wants her ashes to be released on the wind that comes up before a thunder storm. That is beautiful imagery. Your mom chose these words, chose this terrible imagery, to elicit pity, Copa. Not compassion. Not honor for your blood and your genetic line and your life. I would not be able to move before those words either, Copa. They would freeze me in place, forever a imprisoned ~ some crucial part of the spirit in me forever, for always, for eternity itself ~ imprisoned in pity. Pity is a useless thing, Copa. That is what your mom did to you. Just as Serenity's mom found the weapon to pummel Serenity into the shape she demanded Serenity accept as her own, both as a Child and after the Witch Mother's death. Just as my mother will do everything in her power to do to me. My mother, my sister. Our patterns, the patterns in the lives of the three of us, are too similar for me to doubt that my mother is planning her revenge even now. I do not know what the thing will be. I know I will be entrapped by it as surely as you have, and as Serenity too, has been. And I will not be able to change it or heal it or move from beneath it, either. But oh, boy, I can see the trap your mom, and Serenity's mom too, laid for each of you. [I]Then will I rise from your damned ashes phoenix strong and whole[/I] Whatever poem those lines go with? That poetry was written years ago, and it was written for me, so that I can survive whatever it is going to be. And the only weapon I have is faith. I am meant to be whole. My mother will do everything in her power to prevent that, to hurt me from the grave, as yours has and as Serenity's has, too. I am glad I have come to know this. It will strengthen me, when my time comes. And when it does? Hatred will not help me, then. Like always, the power to defeat it will be love. Of trusting that kind of love Maya Angelou describes so beautifully. It will be a question of knowing that, and of believing in it with our whole hearts. Cedar What in the world was the matter with our mothers, that they do these things, that they willfully commit these kinds of betrayals, against the lives of their own daughters? [/QUOTE]
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