Natasha Gallant

Dear, Lisa

Dear Lisa, I would use ‘Mom’, but for the purpose of remaining truthful in this letter I will stick with your name. You are my mother, don’t get me wrong, that fact has never altered in my mind or in life. Even so, I feel it necessary to refer to you as more of a woman than my mother. As a woman, to a woman, I address the distance I have felt between us since I could comprehend the invisible barrier. That sense of disconnection when we speak; when an opinion is given and true understanding is not met; keeps me from addressing you in my heart's letter as my mother.