Words, thoughts of a mother

  Words, thoughts crease over my
closed lids. Smiles of joy waver
across my cheeks. Tiny rivers
draw lines over the corners of
my lips.

  How do I help you see I am
still here, I still love without
breaking who I am, who you
both have become, still growing
to be?

   Would you listen, only a moment?

Jehovah, I open my heart to you,
my eyes plead for help.

   Bright sun in a turbulent
storm. Onward I push. I see
the strength you give, thank you
Jehovah.

  Stepping forward. Time heals us
all. One moment, second at ease.

  Keep looking toward all that I have
come to know.

  Someday truth will be known.
Until then I hold your faces, your voices
in memory, my heart.
       I love you so much.