Mother, Father

Someday, our Mother and Father will not exist in the world we live in.

A subtle gasp and then awake,

Up in bed before the quake.

A tremor running up your spine,

It hits your head and now you’re blind.

Water falling from your eyes,

But does not take you by surprise.

It’s been like this since they passed,

Your life was lived so very fast.

You hardly took the time to learn,

Your heart does burn and now you yearn

To know the lives of those you knew

The ones who taught to tie a shoe

The ones who held you when you cried

The ones you cried for when they died,

The ones who saw you walk your first

The ones whom you upon they nursed,

The ones whose kiss could heal all wounds,

And now the dreadful hurt consumes.

Your face upon your hands does rest,

And now you face the hardest test.

To realize now what you’ve denied,

Emotions and cold facts collide.

The ones you called Mother and Father

Forevermore will never bother.

The memories like gold and laughter,

Are all you have from this hereafter.

Their eyes upon your lips have kissed

Now, in this world, they no longer exist.

 

The ones you knew as Mom and Dad,

Are only memories forever after,

The regret inside you feels like cancer.

You should’ve spent a minute more

And not treated them like such a chore.

You should’ve spent a minute more…

If only you had…

If only you had…

 

Author's Note

My Mother and Father are still very much alive. It just hits me hard that I will someday live in a world where they no longer exist.