{TRIGGER WARNING ~ loss, grief, estrangement, mental illness}
.
You needed me, I needed you
We were promised to one another
Our love eternal, sweet, and pure
You were my dear kind Mother.
.
To watch you slip away like that
Through a hole too deep to fathom
To lose you more and more each day
Meant that I too fell in the chasm.
.
My pure intent to pull you out
To hold a light to show you how
Only gathered darker storms
Deep enough for us to drown.
.
You fell away, too tired to fight
The ever-gaining tempest
And I came with you part of the way
My failing health unnoticed.
.
’Twas almost too late by the time I knew
That nighttime had arrived
Despair had taken me into her arms
