WITHOUT A MOTHER

Remembering the love
Only the love now that was ours
Shared at a such a critical moment
A time of growth in a little ones life

I wish that I knew then
How brief our time together would be
That heaven had something else in mind
For you were only here a short while

Too young to understand then
Why you had to leave
Heaven an elusive place
Especially for a child to understand

All of these years later
Still haunted by what might have been
I wonder if the ache ever goes away
I still want God to explain
Why you were taken away from a child

Realizing so recently
That the same year you died
My best friend was born
Somehow I was to be blessed

Another woman to share with
A best friend to ease the pain
Of what I was left with without a mother
Somehow finding a way to comfort me

As I see her now
I realize how blessed I am
To have had two extraordinary women
To share my life with
One for all too short of a time
The other for the rest of our lives