I Will Tell Your Story Again

mom you are amazing i think of all these examples and re-tell your story often to myself I am still learning from you. I used to hate you. It must be difficult to be a mother. the old reels from your sister's wedding showed me a nurturer and educator who believed in my intelligence what I am eating saying mm melons when I was not old enough to remember you showed me an honesty I didn't know was rare your pain was but a mystery the only thing you protected me from your thought process an enigma your wisdom a staple people call you genius and I feel it in my heart I have watched you come up from the deepest sorrows I have searched for you for 9 years once I know now, you will always be with me you're the reason I write love of words, the play with a child's joy your humor could strike a star from the sky when I think of what you have been through i then see you smiling we can't control life but you have shown me the mastery of it you turn water into walk on water do things doctors claim impossible I see your power and my breath is pinched you taught me to let fear leave it was going anyway i will honor your being i am here for you as long as we live I will tell your story again