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The Moment

May 14, 2022
By Anonymous

Yo nunca pensé que usted me ibas tratare como mi otro nietos me tratan


Translation: I never thought that you would treat me like my other grandchildren treat me


Those were the words that my grandmother said to me

Do you want to know what I thought at that moment?


Nothing


For a moment I thought about nothing

For a moment there was this tiny sliver of nothingness in my head

For a moment there was dead silence in my head


But then that moment was over


How dare she

How dare she say that to me?

 

Her first grandchild

I practically spent my entire summers with her

We went fishing together

We had picnics together

We watched movies together in my blanket forts that I built

We had our own song together

I never disrespected her

I loved her


Those were the thoughts that ran through my head after the tiny second of silence was over


How could she say that to me?


I treated her with respect

Unlike her other grandchildren

I loved her

Unlike her other grandchildren

I spent time with her

Unlike her other grandchildren

I cared for her

Unlike her other grandchildren

I was there for her


I had never left her side


But when she said those words to me

 

The glass was shattered in to millions of little pieces

The damage was done

And I would never forgive her for that

She never even apologized for it


Things haven’t been the same between us since that moment


The author's comments:

I wrote this poem weeks after I had an argument with my grandmother. I want to show it to her but I know if she read it, it would break her. But it also hurts seeing her now and how she tries to act as if nothing ever happened between us. As if she never broke that part of me that loved her.


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