What an amazing piece. Too bad I have no more votes. Deserves to be on the front page. Add to my favorite.

'the face beneath my face"

wow

Mesmerizing to say the least!

Congratulations on your win this week. A worthy win indeed.
All the very best
Ben

JUDGING COMMENT:

I must say that this is a very haunting write filled
with a self discovery journey and the magnitude of
its pain emits within this poem. Its like the writer
is caught within the writer's "killer" world and that
itself drags her down and locks her up inside a
black hole. But there is always light at the end of
the tunnel and this case the writer's daughter.
Children do have an innocent way to bring out
the smile on a mother's face.

The ending:

because she's my flesh,
my absolute pain,
the face beneath my face.

^^My, this one stunned me. Instead of using
the words mirror etc, it just sandwiched me, I felt
I was looking into that mirror, that inner self.

Mind blowing. Karla, you have this unbelievable ability in communicating with readers while writing perhaps some of the most personal poems.

The connection one feels with the way you place your words and emotions, and the way you play with metaphors is mesmerizing.
From the very 1st few lines to the "Face, beneath my face" this poem did not cease to move my emotions.

A daughter mother poem could never be any less touching, could it!

Well done

Mind blowing. Karla, you have this unbelievable ability in communicating with readers while writing perhaps some of the most personal poems.

The connection one feels with the way you place your words and emotions, and the way you play with metaphors is mesmerizing.
From the very 1st few lines to the "Face, beneath my face" this poem did not cease to move my emotions.

A daughter mother poem could never be any less touching, could it!

Well done