The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph

Author:Lynn Joseph
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

pero no se desajó.

But it was not destroyed.

Mi madre me quiere mucho

My mother loves me a lot

pero más la quiero yo.

But I love her more.

I closed my eyes to all the blueness around me and thought about my mother—my Mami—my wash-day friend—my Stand up straight and never look down force—my “You will write stories, cariño” believer. From somewhere inside myself, I knew that Mami needed me and that she had a whole bunch of words and questions fighting her like I did. And if we didn’t stick together then one dark night those very same questions would eat us up and spit our bones across the sand.

But I was a writer, wasn’t I? I loved words. To me, Papi was still my Papi and words didn’t have to be the enemy destroying my family. I had a power over them.

I could make words into anything I wanted. Not lies, not tales of sorrow, but the opposite. I could rewrite everything to make my not-Papi’s Sunday eyes disappear and maybe bring my Mami’s faraway Sunday face back to us . . . to him.

One girl’s words, I thought, can they be that powerful? It was time to find out. I would write a poem, I decided, and I would give it to Mami and Papi and they would know then how words are everything and nothing all at the same time. Because the man on the porch drinking his rum is my Papi, whether I like him or not—he is my Papi, and the man on the mule is a story!

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