Loss

I was young
I needed you
yet you still had to go
an awful disease
my youth taken
I had to grow up
see with new eyes
my heart broken
my life on another path
I was alone
on a path I had not chosen
a path that was chosen for me
one that I was born to walk
the real me

I am older
wiser
my heart is bigger
because of my loss
my loss is who I am
more so than the life before
you died
I am breathing because you gave me life
I am living because you
died
my heart still aches
dreams of loss
I am still here walking my path
with my own family
my heartache still there
though it is something
I can live with
It is dull but
a reminder of who I am
who you were
Mother