When Heaven Wept For Mom

 

When Heaven Wept  

For Mom  


It rained that day.  

She said it would

her tears falling from the sky  

as she left us behind.  


But we didn’t know.  

There was no warning.  

No time to hold her hand,  

no final words,  

no last breath shared.  


She was fine

and then she was gone.  

Just gone.  


The world didn’t stop,  

but mine did.  

Everything cracked open,  

and I fell through.  


How do you survive  

when the one who made you  

disappears in a moment?  

How do you breathe  

when the air feels cruel  

for still moving without her?  


Where she once stood so strong,  

now there’s only silence.  

She’s become our angel,  

watching from above

but I want her here.  

I need her here.  


I wasn’t ready.  

I’m still not.  

Her absence is a wound  

that never closes.  

It bleeds in quiet moments,  

in loud ones too.  

It bleeds when I laugh,  

when I sleep,  

when I remember.  


Now I walk through days  

that feel too long,  

too empty,  

too wrong.  


But I feel her

in the hush of morning,  

in the ache of night,  

in the echo of her laugh  

that refuses to fade.  


Her touch still lingers  

in the corners of my heart.  

Her love still wraps around me  

like a memory I clutch  

with trembling hands.  


No matter where she’s gone,  

she is here.  

In every tear,  

in every breath,  

in every shattered piece of me.  


I love you.  

I miss you.  

And I’ll carry you  

 

forever.  

Author's Notes/Comments: 

In loving memory of my mother who passed away Dec 18 2008

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