The Lost Photo of Mom and Me
This summer, my cousin sent me this long-lost photo of mom holding me as a baby. Looking at this photo moved me deeply then, and breaks my heart now. Since nobody will ever love me as completely, as unconditionally, as a mother loves her child.
WOW THAT PICTURE IS SO PRECIOUS!!!!!
How adorable!
Todah for sharing this!
YES, dear Chana Jenny!
LOST
by Bracha Goetz
“I lost my Mommy,”
Was what I wanted to say
To the woman I met in the supermarket.
But I would have sounded like a four-year-old,
Lost in a very scary place,
Separated from the love that most wanted to protect me.
And then the tears would have started.
And I really didn’t want that.
Not next to the smiling bananas. Or anyplace.
So I just said, “My mother passed away.”
But in truth,
With my link to the past
Severed,
I am pushing a shopping cart,
Passing the freezer section,
Looking like an adult,
But feeling, as I turn down each new aisle,
I lost my Mommy.
Beautiful, Bracha.
Beautiful, thank you for writing that, it brought tears to my eyes. I don’t think I’ll ever look at bananas the same way again!
happy i am not alone feeling “where is my ima”…