A Friend's Mother
Another friend has lost her mother
painful cancer and then broken hip
to hasten the end
tears
stand in her eyes
looking for mother
eyes I have known as a child
so I wipe her eyes
with my fingers
as mother is gone
and she crumples against me
giving in to grief
to being an orphan
to the awful alone-ness that envelopes you
when both your parents are dead
dead and gone
I hold her there and let her cry
through that mighty fear
we cry together
lost as children
just
children
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