Death Of Mother

Dealing with loss — Losing people you love creates a vacuum inside that no one can see or feel. The stronger the relationship between you two was, the deeper the pain is. Dealing with it and learning to live with it may take days, months, or even years. The situation is even more challenging…

I knew the day before yesterday that my mother had passed away six months ago. I had not seen my mother for many years, yes, even before I developed sudden deafness. I am now at a loss for my emotions. I am shocked, confused, sorrowful, regretful, and emptiness. I remember fragments…

Today was a hard day. But there was laughter and funny stories mixed in with the hard. Mom was not feeling good today. There was pain- the most pain I’ve seen her in since she was hospitalized over a year a go. At one point she needed to lay down…

There’s a photograph of a mother and daughter. Bright faces with smiles as they are locked arm in arm. The sun is shining. There are…

By Timlynn Babitsky I. Sliding down the side of this pit cannot touch bottom cannot see light Oh someone throw me a ladder Or a shovel Or a god to believe in Oh pitiful, tiny grain of sand Is chaffed and charred and wounded II. The grass still holds its…

I wrote this two years ago, but I felt like sharing it again today. I miss you, Momma. Today, February 2nd, is the twenty-fifth anniversary of my mother’s death from AIDS complications. It’s been a quarter of a century, and although that’s a long, long time, in a human’s perspective…

11.15.15 I wrote a poem tonight. it doesn’t help, but it does. and everything is nothing, then, as crisp as morning’s breath, and winter sets her eyes on you, her prize, her pale princess. no, it can never be that pure again, before you flattened the snow, leaving this imprint, the shape…