Motherless

Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child

Mother’s Day approaches

People are running to get gifts, plan meals, and purchase flowers

for their Mothers

I stand alone

Feeling like an orphan

My Mother lived a good life

But she left me

She went to heaven and she is gone!

I don’t have the orchids to buy, take her out to dinner, call her up and laugh with

I dread the holiday every year

I don’t want to go to church and stand up so you can give me white roses

So that everyone knows that I had a mother and she is deceased

People staring like poor baby

I put on a smile and inside I am crying

I want to hold her hand one more time

I want to hear her voice on the other end of the phone

I want to go and get her something nice to wear

I want to sign that card for Mother’s Day

I don’t like to feel this way

Motherless!!!

by Patricia A. Saunders

Author of Let It Rain

Blessed & Curvy