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Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n I do not give you enough credit <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Edward Lee<\/strong>‘s poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Acumen<\/em> and Smiths Knoll<\/em>.\u00a0 His debut poetry collection Playing Poohsticks On Ha’Penny Bridge<\/em> was published in 2010. He is currently working towards a second collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mother I do not give you enough credit for the strength it must have taken to turn your back on all you knew to live a life with a man wed to another, knowing you could never marry him, divorce an illegal and dirty word in a country decades away from change, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14975,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions\/14975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor the strength it must have taken
\nto turn your back on all you knew
\nto live a life with a man
\nwed to another,
\nknowing you could never marry him,
\ndivorce an illegal
\nand dirty word
\nin a country decades away from change,
\nand yet spending forty years
\nwith him,
\nholding his hand
\nwhen his last breath
\nentered the world,
\nyour two sons to hold you up
\nat the funeral
\nwhen all you wanted was to fall down
\nbeside your love
\nand never get up again.<\/p>\n