enjoy this Linda M. Crate writing
in the free 2016 PDF file chapbook: If Tomorrow
Never Comes
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
if tomorrow never comes
Linda M. Crate
mother’s day is painful
for me
because while i enjoy celebrating
my mother and grandmother
i cannot help but think of
you,
and how no one will ever recognize
me as your mother;
or ever know your name or your love or
your laughter—
“at least you didn’t get pregnant”
i never had the heart to tell my mother that i
had,
and i know i should but i
don’t have the strength i need to possess to tell her
maybe i never will;
just know that if tomorrow never comes
i love you and i always will,
and maybe some mother’s day in a distant world
from this one i will proudly hold you
in my arms
and you will know the love i have always known.
