I've needed my mom for a very long time! A family member posted how she missed mom and I didn't know what to comment...so I commented nothing. I wanted to scream!! Nothing really meant everything. I have been grieving her loss in my life for so very long. I have felt so alone for a very long time. The one silver lining is that it is finished, I cannot do anything else to repair this relationship...it is now for me to make peace...
Three years ago she said to me, "I never wanted you to leave"...my mind felt like it was going to explode. I wanted to scream, "Why didn't I get that memo?" "Are you kidding me?" The ironies that niggle at my mind all the time not just since she died but for years of unanswered questions. "Why didn't I know?" I remember back in 1993, after I had finished my DTS and SOW at YWAM...I was pondering the question of returning home or staying where I was. I wanted to go home, but didn't feel any hope that things between Mom and I would change and it hurt too much so I didn't go home. If I had gone home would the outcome have been any different? Every time I went home, it was painful, tense and stressful. How can one know? The question still lingers now. How I had wished that someday we could make peace. I fantasized that it would happen someday...but I also wondered if this day might come as well, when one of us would die and all these questions and all this angst would remain...
Dear Mom...
i think you might know all this now but here goes...
The words i wish i could've said
or maybe did...but you just couldn't hear...
i know how hard it is to live with a broken heart
a senseless silence
an overwhelming sadness and angst
thinking death would be a welcome relief
i just can't figure out what went wrong-
i loved you so much but maybe
i was destined to fail from the start-
if only you could know my heart
(maybe you know now)
though definitely not perfect
'cause i'm far from that
add hurts and all of it
gets very messy
on your side
and mine
but...through it all i loved you deeply
i wanted so much for you to like me
to accept me...
to love me...
for us to talk...
share...
laugh...
together
maybe you already know all this now-
maybe you know i tried to see you
before it was too late
maybe you know and because of your humanness
your heartaches, just couldn't
pick up that phone...
the message of us singing happy birthday
rings on that answering machine in my ears...from last May,
eight months ago
now, i'll never know why until
heaven meets earth
when all will be made right-
maybe then you and i
and your Mom and Jackie too
can have peace inside ourselves
and with each other
maybe there are reasons you just couldn't explain-
"I wish you had never left"
no sadder words could have
rung and rattled in my mind
and soul
and heart
why couldn't you tell me sooner?
Nothing but whys are left now
no answers
now dad with dementia
and all tightly kept
and tossed into the sea
my heart already damaged and ravaged
and the loss keeps coming
seemingly no end
but who cares anymore?
i will have you and so much more
someday, in heaven
when i too go home
until then Mom, i love you, always have,
never stopped
but...
i think you might know that now