If Only a Mother's Love Could Have Saved You
Bones bear girth
where once,
wisdom birthed you
Love lost in the framing
of art for art’s sake
(because and as if)
a mother's love
could have saved you--
been there to catch
you fall
tears stilled by the heavens
stars deep as dark's cry
to where now
and forever--
you forever now reside.
Your descent of life
hers, labored love born,
on wings beating too wildly
and too soon your own.
your beat of heart hers,
now her own to live on
sick pulse of ache
holding death in her arms.
oh my heart
and oh my son,
without you life empties
yet love forever beats on.
And so now, my forever,
"Why?" replete in my soul,
which has always--
and still, child--
moved in grooves you made whole.
If only a mother's love could have saved you
If only she had heard your heart's cry,
Perhaps she could save you yet both
falling stars in the darkness of sky.
© Beth Brown, 2022
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I live life between, straddled here now and then,
My continuity through writing--
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Love lingering still, and Most Beloved's purring soothes.
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