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nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

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Between the Lines

0 posted 2004-05-09 07:37 AM

With the Title Comes...

For my mother, I offer the shoulder and open arms,
that her mother would have for her, if only she was here.
For a mother to know that only these moments now matter,
these moments of time that will slow to a halt
in the next week and days thereafter.

And maybe now I can understand the hardship it has brought,
my fighting with her to get her here before it was too late.
My week of screaming through every pour,
trying to understand the "want not" of it all.

For I am not a mother, only a sister, an aunt and a daughter
and shall never know the enjoyment of, nor the trials
that come along with the title.

M

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2004-05-09 07:49 AM

Maureen,
A good write enjoyed the read.

inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

2 posted 2004-05-09 08:13 AM

For I am not a mother, only a sister, an aunt and a daughter
and shall never know the enjoyment of, nor the trials
that come along with the title.

somehow you do know, regardless of title, just being a human being in tune with those around her

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

3 posted 2004-05-09 08:13 AM

enjoyed

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-05-09 08:51 AM

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2004-05-09 07:19 PM

Maureen, bless your heart -- I do understand -- I have been trying for several years to get Mom to live with me. She refuses. It is so hard for them to not want to be a burden and yet want to have us near.

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

6 posted 2004-05-09 10:37 PM

M,
My great-great aunt Jewell mourned that fate. I'm not sure I ever helped her understand how much she mothered me in her old age. The comfort is in those you love and I know you do that well. Peace, dear friend. A lovely write.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

7 posted 2004-05-09 11:58 PM

Just being who are is what's important...enjoyed the write

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2004-05-10 02:32 AM

if only she was here...yes...I know

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