Right Between The Eyes

Mother

Mother

I remember your tears, my tears

I could feel them in your words

Hearing them as every drop of rain hit the ground

Alone, I feel your loneliness

Surrounding you like an aura

drawing a breath of grey

The tiredness sinks in as tiny creases on your withered face

Even when you smile your eyes remain solemn, deep and heavy with weight

Baring on yours shoulders it is hard to walk alone, is it not?

To feel the numb emptiness within your chest and the absence on the other side of your bed

What is a burden if not to be shared?

Mother

I remember your strength

Your refusal to break down, falling in scattered pieces

Moving on

Walking beyond the days of rain and depression

Moving towards those where you cast your own sunlight

Leaving behind the darkness, into the light

Mother

Magnificent, beautiful , strong and flawed

No one is perfect

Everyone is allowed their moment of weakness

For we arise stronger than before

With ever tear you let go

And with every smile you move on

In your own strength and that of God you heal

Mother

I know nought of anyone else quite like you

Perhaps they exist, perhaps not

Either way it means nothing

Because it is everything in you that gives me the unshaken, unwavering confidence in you

To call you

My Mom