Mother - Eternal Poem by Rachel Bari

Then.....when I penned
Your return to Earth
I was not a mother
Yet I wrote....for
I saw, sensed the silent grief
In a child you cherished
I sensed the grieving heart of a mother
The pain in separation permanent
And sensed the uncertainty of life and time


Today when I sense pain in my limbs
And the weakening of muscle and heart
A missed heartbeat here and there
I know...how you must have felt
When you left your only loving child
To face a harsh and uncertain world
That poem emerged when you returned
To the lap and land that you belonged to.
This, on the threshold of that return.
Today I understand better the pain
In leaving....not the world
But a child I cherish and love.