With age often comes wisdom and more appreciation for our past than may have originally been felt. I think the lesson in this was the appreciation for the women in his past life, his mother being the leader of them all, and the little lessons learned along the way.

Rather the stick huh? A firm hand to keep in line. this is a good opening to this. this felt like I read two full pages here.

You have a really nice writing Style I’ve always enjoyed. I like the contrast between Sonia and the mother. In a world of wonderment, a little boy finds his first crush. It’s an ideal life of wonder and amazement. I believe if there was a hundred dollar bill in his pocket he would have given it to her. lol

The mother has wisdom enough to know where his feelings will be in years to come.

hello dearest poet great flow and deep questions ❤️

Powerfully penned, Brandon. Another amazing write with great flow and lots of substance my friend. Nicely done. Appreciate you.

Damian

You already know I adore this one. The questions land with such clean force, and the cadence pulls me back for another read every time.

I stand by my original comment when I read it the first few times…

“Your questions move like a quiet tide… each one brushing against the edge of longing, change, and the places where certainty slips. There’s a beautiful ache in how you hold opposites together: stillness and motion, fire and ice, surrender and will. It feels like a search for the moment where tension becomes truth, where the self finally meets itself without flinching. I love the way each line leans into that threshold. It lingers with me.” -Curly Grace (Writers Cafe)