She changed
Towards the end
He noticed
How could he not
She still remembered
when it dawned on him
Where is my strong mom? With the purest sincerity
She wondered the same
Even so, she regretted nothing
Especially, everything that came before
She lived-
She really lived
She was a free spirit once
When he came along
She became a woman
No longer a self-centered girl
She fought fights most will never know
He will
He will remember
She feared the memory of what she’d become
Here
Now
At the end
Would loom
In his memory
She prayed he would remember
The talks
They talked
For hours
He asked thousands of questions
She loved answering them
Down to the greatest detail
Every last one
She prayed he would remember
The strong mom
And most importantly
The lessons she was sent to teach
She prayed
He would remember those
And that he would live
She prayed her boy would live
A life of pure
Beautiful
Simplicity
A life…
In which he would carry her memory
The good pieces
In just a tiny little corner of his
Big beautiful heart
That he would live and love
She prayed he would forgive her the mistakes and not harbor any anger or bitterness
But that he would love life and live it
With her memory tucked away in one tiny corner for safe keeping
Until they meet again
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