Farewell Isabelle

It’s the anniversary of her death I am reminded of it every year Not so much by the calendar But by my internal clock of pain You remember the place You remember the time Her look of final peace Our mother Our monster We lived our lives in hell For all of her drunken antics We were the ones to feel the pain She drank …We suffered As children we never understood her demons Did she love us? Why did she hurt us? What did we do to make her act this way? We were innocent Frightened young souls Doomed to grow up Broken… Shattered… Pieces scattered throughout our lives Never knowing how to be whole. You would have been a hundred this year if you had lived We have grown to forgive you Finally finding our place in this world On our own… We made it to the other side So Farewell Isabelle You did the best you could Patty LeDuc February 4, 2019 Scattered Thoughts 2019 (In memory of Isabelle Krumm)