The Lilac x The Student: “Growing pains”
Madison Suh ’26 delivers a heartfelt poem about growing up and maternal relationships in this week’s edition of The Lilac x The Student.
There is a pain on my left side and it won’t
go away my Mother says it’s
growing pains
but I think
there is something wrong with me I think
we should call a doctor my Mother
is a doctor she says nothing is wrong I say my chest hurts she says
what happened to your left side I say it’s everywhere please stop please make it stop she says who do you think I am I say
a doctor
And what will I do when she is gone
can you die from a broken heart my Mother says no my doctor
says no I say what do you know
about love
because you would crack her chest only to stitch it back again and call it
healing
go take out the parts that no longer serve her go Call an ambulance
because her appendix has burst why was it even there in the first place when did it ever
serve her when all it was meant to do was
burst
Mom it hurts there is a pain in my chest
Surgery can’t help her there is something wrong with her brain
Mom my heart burst Mother please
these growing pains are going to kill me why was my body made to die Mom please I want you
to crack my chest open I need you to take out the things that hurt I need to take out the thing that
burst
And when she is gone I will tell my Doctor
I have growing pains
And he will tell me to grow up
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