Birth

I’ve arrived. I’m alive

Cried before looking up at your smile

Safe in your arms

Kept away from harms way

A new life has been blessed today

My earliest memory

You were right there next to me

Holding my hand as we roamed around Tivoli

It was only us

Then others picked me up

And that’s when I met the rest of my family

I detested school, because I was away from you

I remember kindergarten and recall when we parted

Things were new without you

And so it started

I tearfully watched as from the gates you departed

Whenever I had a terrible day

The voice was always there: “Sweetheart it’s ok”

That comforting face above that loving embrace

Within a heartbeat I’ve found my tears had been erased

As time went by I saw myself change

Regardless, though, you were still the same

The most beautiful person I’ve seen since birth

First thing I see in my life on this Earth

I owe you everything and more

For all that you’ve done for me

You are the reason why my life is everything it’s come to be

Now I wait for my turn to take care of you

And show that my love is genuine and true

The sixteenth of March 1992

Was the day you carried a baby smiling at you

All the while, your smile

Left me nothing but beguiled

No mother alive should outlive her child

“I love you mom. You are and forever will be my hero”