Friday, February 11, 2011

To Edie

I learned your mother's name
Just a few days after she passed.
I am so very sorry.
I didn't know her.
I didn't know her name.

But
I know you.
I know your name.
I know you as
A mother.

I don't know your mother's story
Her life or her loves
Her beginning or middles or even
Her end.

I don't know
What inspired her or pushed her through
Moments of back-break
Or heartache
Or who she lived for day by day
For all her splendid years.

What I do know is that
She had a daughter.
A lovely daughter who grew up and became
An even lovelier mother -
An accomplishment worth more than
Any quiet words could hold
Or sympathy comfort.

You are more than just
A mother.
You are
Her daughter.

And she was more than just
A mother.
She was
Your mother.

Onward beautiful life, an end
To beautiful child, onward life again.

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