As has oft been noted

All throughout the Disney Renaissance

That supposedly shielded and saved us

From R-rated media

A slew of young women

the protagonists of their stories

raised by fathers

without mothers

Ariel and Trident

Belle and Maurice

Jasmine and the Sultan

Pocahontas

Mulan

(Such that when Mufasa dies

it almost registers as radical

save that he

at least has a name)

Whence this erasure

These daughters without mothers?

Yet then I remember Heavenly Mother

And the silence turns into a chorus—