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Waiting

a message today in code shaky voice can't tell if she's sober telling me shes in her counselors office which leads me to wonder if its jail hospital rehab psychiatric hospital where are you today? three almost four weeks without word mothers agony mocks a scream of silence unbearable not to know unable to hear hanging my head waiting

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Veronica Joseph

Date: 4/24/2009 9:04:00 AM

The pain is hard to name, its like no other. Its soul ripping.

Crystal Bellman

Date: 4/24/2009 6:20:00 AM

I have been on the waiting end of this type situation. Not easy at all. The whole gammet of thoughts and emotions you think all the time. I wonder if they really know what we are put through? Take Care

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 4/23/2009 8:12:00 PM

Oh, Veronica, this must be so difficult for a mother to bear. I hope she confides in you. Her absence from your life created so much worry. Hate to think of you "hanging my head waiting." Very compelling poem!