Your Mother-s Son -2023- Instant

But 2023 is teaching you that blood doesn’t negotiate.

Last spring, she handed you an old photograph: him at twenty-five, leaning against a car that no longer exists, smiling in a way that you now catch yourself smiling when no one’s watching. “You have his hands,” she said quietly. Not an accusation. Not a compliment. Just a fact, heavy as a stone dropped in still water. Your Mother-s Son -2023-

You don’t realize you’re becoming him until the moment you already are. But 2023 is teaching you that blood doesn’t negotiate