to my mother

i see you

staring from distant doorways

my whole life

youll never show your face

i love you mom

and your words i can only imagine

they hold true

in the worlds ive fathomed

your distant touch

formed from memories of love

left a small marking on my chin

if only i could repent

the thought of you

which i hold so dear

is a figment of yearning

may the waters never clear

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is heart wrenchingly beautiful...and reminds me of my own mother, and that distance that lessened but never quite disappeared....i miss her.
j.