Losing Mom: A Journey Through Grief (Part 7)
April 14, 2021 (8 Months) April 4, 2021 (Easter Sunday) Happy Easter, Momma. It's just another thing on the long list of things that keep coming up so quickly, and yet it also feels like you've been gone for a very long time. A painfully long time. I kept closing my eyes last night and forcing my brain to show me your face. I tried to make it remember every word of our last face-to-face conversation, but it betrayed me. I feel so lost sometimes, so unsure of things without you here. But mostly, I'm just unsure of why you're not here... I can't believe that it's been so long since I've seen you. Not just you, but you alive. Your face. Your eyes sparkling and your mouth talking. That pink shirt on that last day I saw you, wiping off groceries that you just went to the store and bought. You didn't look like someone that was going to die... I don't understand how you died. I don't mean HOW you died, but how YOU died, you know? Like I re