Mother's Day

Its Mother’s Day and Mama has been gone for four months now … I miss her sooo much … my friend, my ally, My Mama … part of me wants to believe she’s just away …on a long vacation and she will be home any day now …

I remember once as a child … while we were leaving church I had ahold of Mama’s hand but in the crowd somehow I lost my grasp … I quickly looked around for her and when I spied her, I squeezed and pushed my way up to grab ahold of her hand again … or at least what I thought was her hand … when I looked up, I was holding someone else’s Mama’s hand.

You can imagine the panic I felt … me … a small child having to hold my head way back to look way up into the faces of adults … “oh no, I’ve lost my Mama” … hot tears running down my sweet little cheeks … I’ve never forgotten that memory or how I felt and that’s how I feel now …

Like I’ve lost my Mama’s hand …