Kat Beeton
Featured on BBC News
A woman, striding fierce and ambling gentle her words resonate across oceans little girls understanding their place can be as high as they can imagine and at the end of it all a mother’s voice, once heavy grows light and disappears on a whisper A son sits in his mother’s shadow the movie of her life still playing on a loop inside a chest that aches with the weight of expectation people looking for her trace in the movement of his shoulders and the way he wears responsibility We watch from the outside celebrating lives we wish we could live or wondering why we weren’t born in the right house but we are all human in the end and this mother moved nations
