Title: Hostages to Fortune
Fandom: Original
Length: 27 words
Content notes: no warnings apply; contains angst
Summary: too short to need one



to love, in that world,
was to be held prisoner
under my mother's regime

in my sister's house
the same prison shadows fall
on the next generation



Technical note: The website Shadow Poetry defines sedoka as "an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
A katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7."