At her age at last, I beg my mother's pardon
She could not stand her mother's nagging, and thought her stubbornness unfair. Only after raising her own children and growing stooped herself did she begin to see how heavy the weight her mother had carried alone was. Yang-sun Hwang, who learned to write late at the Buyeo Lifelong Learning Center, entered into the exhibition an apology to her mother, offered into the air.
Why did I not understand my mother’s heart when I was young? Only now, old and ailing and the age she was then, do I see the deep love behind that bent back, and I beg her forgiveness.
— Yang-sun Hwang (Buyeo Lifelong Learning Center)
TODAY’S PRACTICE
If your parents are still here, ask them this week who they were before they were parents.
SOURCE
National Literacy Education Center · 2025 National Adult Literacy Poetry Exhibition, Beauty Prize · Yang-sun Hwang, Buyeo Lifelong Learning Center
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