The Mama Eye

The Mama Eye

I was 7 at the time and I had just fallen over a couch and landed on a sharp edge at the corner of my eye. Mama was not in Illinois yet. I had just been taken to the hospital a day ago when the area above my eye began to swell.

It turned all different colors, then blue. One day I looked in the mirror and cheerfully remarked, "I look like Mama in one eye!" Mama always had blue makeup right above her eyes, like my eye looked now. I was so gleeful and I didn't complain about the eye until it changed colors.

I called her while it was blue and she laughed. It made me feel good to know that she was putting on her blue makeup still.

I will never forget that blue eye, and I hope Mama won't either.

                           The End

                                   -- Kristiana Yao