My Mum Is Me

Maybe I am wishing for it Maybe I want for your likeness You bore me And somehow The loss in me responds Today I laid in bed Wide awake Just thinking Wide eyed You used to do that When I entered your room You would be lost in your thoughts Somehow happy Then see me And smile Say you were getting up soon I wondered what You could be thinking Contemplating All that your life had brought I never gave it A thought Until now Because I do The same As you I watch my body Rise from my bed My legs like yours My arms like yours My fragility like yours Attend to my family Putting my thoughts To bed Until tomorrow morning When in those few seconds Before my daughter wakes me I am close to you My Mum Is Me...