Mom

Mom

By R.e. Taylor

Mom

I have missed you for so long

You left before I was grown

Before I had the chance to learn from you

To ask you the questions I needed to ask

I know that it was not your fault

You would have never left us on your own

I guess God needed you more than we did

But still I miss you and I still dream of you

I am here looking at all of the candles people have lit

For their friends or relatives

And I take a match a light one of my own just for you

The flame will not be a memorial for you

Mom, it is a light to show you the way back

Back to the son you nearly lost sixty years ago

And to the heart and mind where you have always lived

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