when my mother stabbed me

hey there, thought i'd leave a review. once again, huge fan of the poem. in one of my classes we're talking about metaphors, and i really love that the entirety of this poem is just one big metaphor. the first stanza for me was the most relatable: "You stabbed me. // and all I did // was apologize for getting blood // on your carpet." It just paints the picture that, unfortunately, i feel is pretty relatable for a lot of mother-daughter relationships: the relationship of the daughter apologizing when it was the mother who did something wrong. in the second stanza, you wrote: "the pain didn't hurt as much // as seeing your face // when I turned around." for me, when i read this stanza, it just made me think of seeing my mother's face filled with disappointment. i don't know if this is the particular expression you were thinking of when you wrote this, but it's the one i immediately thought of. i always feel like having my parents disappointed in me was always worse than any other punishment i ever received. in the final stanza you write: "But instead, I bandage my bruised body // and conceal the secrets that your nails // etched into my little body." in this last stanza, i get the sense of almost acceptance? it's like, even though you want to scream, you know it won't do anything good, so you just have to pretend like everything is fine even though it's not, and you're still hurting.

Hello! Timeless Mage here with a review!

General Impressions/the gist of the poem
The speaker, (whom I am going to assume is female) got stabbed in the back by her mother for doing something wrong. The speaker then sees her mother's face, and her very existence seems to cause the mother pain. However, instead of holding that above her mother, she tries to hide it from the world, and keeps it tucked away in some corner of her heart. With the nature of this poem, I think this is supposed to be metaphorical, speaking of relationship problems rather than a literal stabbing.

What could make this even better?
There is one or two grammatical changes that I would make, for instance, you don't capitalize the 'i' on line 14, and I would maybe add some ending punctuation, but for the most part, your punctuation and grammar seems very well-done and intentional. Well done!

What was my favorite aspect of the poem?
I think the strikethroughs where a nice touch. They convey undertones through the poem that there is more to what is going on than what is simply said, and imply the speaker has an internal monologue as well as what is on the page. I have rarely seen anyone write in such a way that shows the character of the speaker so well, with showing and telling so little!

Keep it up! We create these worlds not for the sake of others, but the worlds and characters themselves.