Motherlands is a personal collection of poetry that dives into the complex emotions of diaspora. I invite you to journey with me through what it means to leave home as a child and come back as an adult.
This collection is a heartfelt exploration of what it means to balance two worlds—and to reach beyond your own generation to revive and foster connection.
In addition to exploring themes of immigration and identity, in Motherlands, I sit with the women of my life, and the archetype expectations placed on South Asian women. I hope to understand their pain and plant a seed for change.
This book was a peaceful settling point after decades of turbulence.
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How can I point out all the rules she placed, when the burden of culture is a mother’s weight?
If I cross a line, we all know which parent is to blame,
How could I compare her to sitcom moms who have it all?
When our society sets women up to fail and to fall?When I separate my mother from motherhood, I feel her pain,
Of all the sacrifices made only to have it thrown back into your face,
I’m being cruel I know, I need to learn to let go,
The standards that aren’t fair, of a fantasy impossible for any woman to achieve,
I am trying to let her in, to feel close to me now,
To meet in a halfway place between our worlds