To My Mom

In loving memory of my mom

We won't change it,

In this world, life must happen—and so must death.

We won't change it,

It has been, and will be, as long as there’s breath.

Yet to bear it

Is a burden far too heavy for the heart,

When the heavens

Take our loved ones to a world so far apart.

I’m crying

For never again meeting your loving gaze.

I’m crying

For knowing you’ll never return to my days.

I'm crying

That never again will you hold me so tight

Or call me at night.

Toward the light,

You reached out and whispered softly, "just a while."

Endless plight—

You lost patience to suffer, trial by trial.

Frail body -

You abandoned that restraining little vest,

And ascended—

In a golden ray, your soul was free at last.

I’m crying

Recalling the days when we laughed so much.

I’m crying

For how they've vanished so swiftly as such.

I'm crying

For more of the warmth that I could have bestowed

While your life still glowed.