The Shine Journal - The Light Left Behind
Journeys through grief and beyond...
The Shine Journal - The Light Left Behind
Journeys through grief and beyond...
Subtitle
Margot Brown

Even If
Family watched, warned, possibly
scorned my choice to remember
you as you were — wheel chair roll —
slow, into the kitchen, grazing the wall —
light of dawn gracing the hall —
a final kiss before my flight
and yours.
Two weeks later they said
I’d regret not being
by the hospice bed
in your living room —
but I thought
maybe
you could hear me say
I love you
even if your cracked lips didn't
whisper back —
even if you dreamed mine
was your mother’s call —
even if you thought
you heard me bawl — though I might
not have been there
I wasn’t. I did.