Just a Memory

I never thought that this would happen in my life. I never showed her the love and appreciation that only I could show her. Now here she was cold and unmoving only the steady beating of the heart monitor kept me reassured that her life was still going. Eyes closed in a pale face that was once full of life but now sunken and tired from the stress that had piled up. Stress that was my fault. Ever since she took me in as her own child away from that wretched place, away from all that could hurt me, but I've just been cruel. Everything she did I took for granted, her love, her kindness, her compassion and I replaced that with pain, worry, loss, her happiness replaced by stress. But she did all this because she loved but I never said it back now I may never be able to....