Mother’s Day - Incomplete

Again, Mother’s Day arrived.

Don’t know how past occasions I survived?

Others say, “Be thankful you still have two.”

Those who identify with child loss are few!

It is not the number of children that counts,

Nor is grief determined by scales or amounts.

Although Mother's Day is a reminder of all the love

That a mother shares with her child in heaven above,

It still triggers a lot of sorrow and pain,

And the suffering that a mother for life will sustain.

Her joy on Mother’s Day will always be incomplete

As her child is not there to wish her, and the day greet.

Randah R. Hamadeh, Copyright © 2013

Author, Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents

Written in loving memory of my daughter,

Samar Ahmed Al Ansari (4/4/1988-4/9/2006)

(www.samaralansari.com)