Lori Boast - Imnaps

[remembrancebook]

Lori,

If you're reading this. Can I use your poem on my site at www.remembrance-book.co.uk ?

How do we let a mother go?
How do we say “I’m ready now
to go on without you”?
How can we ever have a clue of what that really means?

And of a sudden
The moment is upon us, and there’s no turning back.

And then we know what grief is,….
and guilt and love and things undone.

Try to prepare and we will fail in some way, be it subtle or looming….

But there is peace too.
Peace and acceptance and overwhelming love that we maybe weren’t aware of.
Waves and waves of conflicting emotion,
And laughter too,
and memories we hadn’t bothered lately to recall
come flooding back in shared company..

and it’s all about you mom…

And there’s gratitude.. so much of that, that we had you, such a wonderful mother…
Bright and shining, nobody’s fool,
Independent, but humble too;
Smart, and kind, and fun.

Adventurous..

A part of you has passed away, but much is carried everyday within us, and will as long as we are here.

This may be a final tribute,
A day to celebrate your life and say goodbyes;
But it’s not final.
Everyday I’ll celebrate in some way, just by the virtue of how you shaped my life,
The absolute and incredible fortune that I knew you.
As a mother, a friend and a woman.


Lori Boast 2007