The fifth season of Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe got the surprise launch treatment on Cartoon Network’s app today, and if the most recent StevenBomb is any indication, it’s going to be filled with dead mom stuff and huge revelations. (It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday, so this all feels quite appropriate.) In that vein, here’s a poem about thinking about dead mom stuff and working through huge revelations.

Steven’s Song

I. Rose’s Fountain

in the morning I wake up with you

hard in my belly

and at night I fall asleep with you

hard in my belly

you’re embedded in my body

never to be gone

and yet you’re gone.

I don’t know how to feel about you

but everybody else does

and when we visit your rose garden,

I just can’t cry

when they tell me of your love and kindness,

why can’t I cry

I have your body in my belly

like I’m your mother

not you mine

I wish I could have met you

then this place could make me sad

those I love they often need protecting

and I have your shield

pink and strong can fuse with friends and float

and my spit heals

except for when it doesn’t work

I wish you’d stayed

I wish you’d say

and I could cry healing tears

like you

II. Storm in the Room

I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately

what else is there to think about you

are my body and I am yours and the love

of those who love me is love for you

too I’m just an extension of your world and

my whole life I’ve been hearing stories about you

stories I can’t escape stories from your lovers

and soldiers and counselors all about you

about how amazing you were that you were so kind

and loving and every time I’d see the painting of you

hanging in the temple I’d be inspired and

reminded of how much I had to live up to

but even as the plants on this planet grow

I grow too I’ve learned things about you

things a child should never learn about a mother

things someone as kind and loving as you doesn’t do

things you wanted to keep secret but there are none

when your body is your mother’s room and womb

I know what you are and it is me a remainder bent

toward loving yours did you make me just so you

wouldn’t have to deal with all your mistakes

so I could be here and not you to see through

what you could not bear to feel to suffer

is that all I’m here for to just go on continue

to be one who left but you’re a part of me now

and I have to deal with what you left behind you

a part of my human body cold as quartz in winter

and always the uncertainty of how to love like you

and still be me

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