** Today would have been my Mother’s Birthday.** I miss you Mom. I know you are watching over me. I can feel your presence very strongly at times. I love you. This is for you.
FOR MOM
The walls are permeated with the laughter and tears once shared.
I fill the room as best I can with today’s sunlight.
I open the window, but the breeze does not sweep away the past.
A life once lived clings tightly.
My fingers touch a picture frame.
Frozen in time, you cradle a child.
I can feel the love in the smile on your lips.
Your fingers gently brush the hair from my face.
Behind my eyes, I’m swept away.
I am once again, safe. Warm. Loved.
You always smelled of lilacs.
Today, your memory is as vivid as yesterday.
Other times, your face is but a faded shape in the mist.
You are always with me, a part of me.
Copyright (C) 2017 Penny Wilson
** This was previously posted in 2016, but I find it to be very fitting for today.
You have written so nicely, I wish these words to reach your mother. I also wrote a poem on my mother’s birthday, it was her first birthday after she left us. I miss her a lot. This is what I wrote
https://akanksharastogi.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/what-to-celebrate-birthday-or-salvation/
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Thank you! I did see your poem and it’s lovely. I followed your blog. Thank you for stopping by!
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Thanks so much, even I am following your blog, it’s good to connect with other like minded people, I will look at your other posts also.
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Thanks so much, even I am following your blog. It’s good to connect with other like minded people. I will read your other posts also.
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Oh that’s just beautiful. Thank you for sharing 😊
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Thank you. She was a pretty wonderful person. My pleasure to share.
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Beautiful, especially “you always smelled of lilacs.”
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Thank you!
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Beautiful tribute 🙂
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Thank you!
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