MAMA, HOW I MISS YOU

Mama, How I Miss You

Mama, how I miss you

Life is not the same

I have survivor's guilt

I feel like I’m to blame

I’m supposed to carry on

But I don’t know how to do it

How can I keep going

Without you here to help me through it

Some days I hear your whisper

In a breeze or a moonbeam

But when I reach to hold you

You vanish like a dream

I try to be so strong

I smile, I fake, I cope

But deep inside, I’m begging

For one more thread of hope

I wish that I had said more

I wish that I had known

That you’d be gone so quickly

And I’d face this world alone

I talk to you in silence

I cry when no one sees

I hope you hear my aching heart

When I drop down to my knees

But maybe love like ours

Can never break or die

And maybe when I miss you

You’re the warmth behind the sky

But sometimes in the quiet

When I’m crumbling at the seams

I feel you wrap around me

Like sunlight in my dreams

Mama, how I miss you

I hope you know how much you meant

I swear you’re here right now

For I smell your powdered scent

I’m here with you, my daughter

I’ve never left your side

I’m the one who dried your tears 

Every time you cried

So when your world feels heavy

And you’re too tired to try to stand

Just close your eyes, dear child

I’m still here to hold your hand

Original Poetry Written By

Eryn Dunbar

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