Mama I Love You
I didn’t really know you.
Oh, I thought I did…
in the cocksure way a child thinks
she knows everything.
I didn’t know you until so near the end
then you, were not the you of childhood.
Your soft waved hair had grayed with anxiety and fear.
How was I to know
or you to answer, if questions which stayed
so long unasked and so unanswered?
For a child to see a Mother torn brings it own fear
for fledgling trusts a Mother’s wing to hide her
to wrap her in a safe and warm embrace.
But, it was you who hid, and left me wanting
yet, it was all you could do…so you said.
Had I only grown strong sooner,
flown free faster of my own accord
would I have loved you, or you loved me, dearer?
who knows when fear doomed us from the start.
I held you close and sang you songs that morning
though through a morphine haze, you never knew
of green fields and sunsets all a dawning
Oh how I wished, I could say, one more…
“I love you.”
Poet: D. Guzzi
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