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“I love you.”
Be quick to say it
Be sure to write it
It is never too often
It will fill your space
It will warm your heart
It is comfort to your soul
A zephyr of love
Now and in years to come
-Alice Nine, 2023
A memory in print, like a zephyr on a chilly day.
There it was this morning. Waiting in my stored FB memories
Three simple but powerful words of comfort
“love you, mom…”
Back story of the poem and the post.
It was January 2014. I was waiting to board an early morning flight for the first leg of my business commute, enjoying a hot chai, people watching, as I stood at a pub height table. It was there that I scribed the post on my Facebook page (pictured above). In the midst of a string of comments, my oldest son, Mike, wished me a “great trip” and shared, “…love you mom…”
In 2023, the post showed up in my FB memories, approximately one year after Mike left us following a two-year battle with cancer. It was then that I wrote the note printed in blue and saved it in my journal. It inspired the poem “I Love You.”
I cannot begin to count the times that I have run across these words from Mike, in cards written in his own block script, in replies to years of FB posts.
“Love you Mom” are words that echo in my memory, a tribute to our love. I have found GREAT comfort in them.
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