Mum, since your unexpected and sudden loss

since our home lost its warmth in a way that no

sunshine could ever replace, countless moments

where I have breathed in a world you no longer

breathe in, endless nights where the silence roars

my heart still remains defiantly, irrevocably broken

I am still living with a wound that refuses to close

I am not stuck, but I am faithful to you, who held

me through nightmares, loved me more wildly

than logic allowed, I am not waiting to heal, but

learning to carry the unhealable, like a vase glued

back together, still holding water, still catching light

but forever marked by its breaking, because love

that big, is meant to leave a mark that never fades

My heart remains fractured, something that

only you could fix, that is the hardest part of all

the one person I need to help me through this

is the one person I have lost, my broken heart

beating your name with every pulse, refusing

to scar over, because you are not a wound

you are the reason, it ever learned to beat at all

My heart is broken, yes, but in the cracks

your light gets in, your memories echo louder

your love flows through like a river, this heart is

a monument to your irreplaceability, a protest

against a world that demands me to get over

so here I stand, a lifetime of loving you, I am

forever your unhealed, unwavering daughter