The Way Holidays Collide
Wrote this when it was both pride month and Caribbean American Heritage Month and being half dominican I couldn’t let that second one pass me by. My last post covered pride month and this poem covered the caribbean heritage part. This is a poem about Dominican Mother’s Day and the way culture can make you celebrate something again so soon. Was on break when I posted this which delayed it a couple of weeks. Originally posted in June 2024.
The Way Holidays Collide
By: A.X. Bueno
The holidays fly by
But it's not too common to get the same one twice especially so soon
But for some it happens right in that last week before June
Different places and cultures celebrate at different times
In different ways
And with the way time soars by sometimes you can forget that in a passing haze
Until it hits you hard
What you have forgotten
Leaving barely enough time to consider even a card
Of course one could argue there's nothing to be boughten
If you celebrated it before why acknowledge it again
Wouldn't it be better to celebrate just the one and not the other
It'd be easier to do it that way but ignoring a piece of culture like that just feels off
So you manage to do something small and once again celebrate the mothers
The caribbean way this time which you didn't want to write-off
So you did what you could with what time would abide
And hopefully next year you'll remember where your two worlds intersect
So it won't feel like you let them plus their holidays almost collide