Breaking Lives Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Breaking Lives



Silence is so deafening, it rips my heart open, for
I know how short life is.
To never again talk to one another like we used to,
preys upon my mind as tears fall steadily from these
eyes.
Eyes that lovingly watched you, adored you through
your childhood, teenage years, adulthood.
Asking myself what happened to cause this break in
our lives, I come up with many reasons to blame
myself.
None of them seem to matter when I think of you, my
perfect child.
There can't be anything so horrible that can't be
forgiven between a mother and daughter, I tell
myself daily.
A mom should be able to fix everything in her child's
life shouldn't she?
Somehow I've failed, I'm at a loss, I don't know
what to do.
Is there a point in our lives where we each ask for
and give forgiveness?
Do you think it can be now, not later?
Before it's too late, can I once again look into your
eyes and see the love you had for me as a child?
If you look into mine you will see my love for you,
it never died, never flickered, only grew more from
my heart through the years.
As we each walk in opposite directions on our single
road through life, one day we will meet God and ask
Him also for forgiveness.
Until that day, may we be able to forgive and talk
to one another, ending the silence that rips our
hearts open with every thought, image and memory of
our lives together, mother and daughter.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Inspired and written for a friend who hadn't spoken to her child in twenty years.
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