엄마/eomma

My 엄마 with her three sons

Saying mom in English feels too distant
Like the sun I never arrive at
no matter how I run after it

엄마/eomma
I do not speak them
My body simply remembers

엄마/eomma are not words
They are songs before words
They are the songs
that sang the whole universe into being

They are songs I knew by heart
before I had ears
and after all these years