Lonely home-while your in there....(for my son)

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Thoughts come easy

to one who sits alone,

although, alone, silence smothers!

Just in the same way words come easy

when there's someone here to hear me. 

When someone is near you have a companion

not just the pen in hand!

And your questions recieve answers to them,

not the frantic empty scribbling,

of scratching  words onto paper,

frantically scrabbling for the truth!

Trying to find a hope, which you can cling to again,

But alone is so unatural, & my tears fall like rain!

The many questions just go unheeded,

and confusion reigns!

And I find myself breaking down, 

because all I want is you back around!

To see your smile , & hear your sound:

Is all that is needed,

to turn these tears into a smile again

and have you safely back home!!!

I love you my precious, frightened son!

One day this nightmare will end

and you'll be back here with me again;

Healthy and happy, & no questions left

because you'll know that the nightmare has come to an end

and it's your turn to start re-living your life!!!

No questions, no worry, no fear and no pain;

Life will be given back to you, and you'll live it again!

However deep and lost in your despair, I'll always be there

Why would I ever ignore you, my darling son?

Without you in it, my life would come undone;

to me you are my everyone!

All my love FOREVER, MUM. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 

 

it a real person,

and what you question gets an answer 

from the other sitting with you

Not the silence like i have again

except for the scrathing from the nib of this pen! 

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Just to say this your poem from the heart moved me and to say in a small way I share in your pain. Sending you caring thoughts, Karen xox

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Thankyou, and bless you! I share this with anyone who can relate....xxx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I've just read your poem - catching up on blogs, forums etc, and it made me cry. I know the pain of watching your big grown-up son battle with tumours. I wanted to die when I found out he'd inherited this disease from me. Only thing that kept me going was wanting to support him. I'll be following your boy's progress closely, please message me anytime Jeanie xx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    standing (cyberly) shoulder to shoulder beside you

    "mums united"

    xNx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    TO karent, deejay & normally: ( & ANYONE ONE ELSE WHO NEEDS IT)....I'm glad my words moved you in some way....strange to think words can do that!

    Do u know, it's so nice to find these replies, offers of support, & standing cyberly beside me!....

    It makes me think of ALL mums on here-feeling the DREAD I do.......It's the really most worse, unatural situation......& I honestly think only another mum could ever understand!!! (Soz Dads- i know u have ur way)-but a mum carried the child-knows her child inherently- & the thought of seeing him/her going through all this is really heartbreaking!

    I bleed for my son, you three ladies above, & ANYONE else finding themselves in this situation: or even worse, the DREADED POTENTIAL NEXT STEP......

    The place we don't go to in our heads: way too painful, & 'cos we gotta remain positive on the outside, be the strength for our child.

    We've gotta smile, not looked shocked, when seeing our child in hosp-in so much pain he can't move his neck (or whatever).....Our eyes remain dry, as we fuss, & do 'mum' things- & act like all is OK....WHEN IT'S NOT!!!!!!  We can breakdown once home....LUXURY!!!

    I hate this disease with a vengance....probs cos i love my son so much, the two contrasts are worlds apart!

    I hate that nurses 'tend' to my son, and I'm told to "wait outside while i examine him", by a doc who can't be much older than my son!...

    I Hate the feeling of no power! I hate that some stranger can get nearer to my son!!!

    Everything is the wrong way round! And somehow,I have to get used to it...accept the fact that my childs now a man....but by God, isn't it hard to let go....??  Entrusting your childs life into some young whipper snappers hands!  

    Isn't it hard to feel on the outside, when every instinct's screaming to be there, in the midst of it all-cos your child needs you.....

    The whole situation is an unfair reality......

    And I'm sorry for anyone out there who feels like me!...

    I love the idea of  *mums united*, which normally suggested......I think we all need a special sort of mum support-( & dad too), but a special place for mums to speak, grieve, etc.....An outlet for all these fears, with others that DO understand!  

    Bless you all.xxxx