Dear Children,
I had a dream about you last night. I could hear your little voices, symphonies of laughter over sounds of powerful splashing waves hitting the sand. The sounds. The smell of salt air. My nocturnal wool gathering was so real. Everything in my senses was taking me back to a time and place of youth and happiness.
I could see the glistening Atlantic that had come to create safe little pools for you to splash and laugh and build sand castles in, lasting only until the next wave filled the sandy pocket with new beginnings. Come and go, swish, swish. Come and go to the sea again. I was living it so clearly…..
Until the light of morning came and washed away the happiness of when little wet hands caressed my face, peanut butter smiles and little toes filled with sticky sand filled my days at the beach. Life beyond my slumber cracked open the door to let those sunshine moments of our past, those butterfly moments; let them fly away into the sunrise.
I know they say good mothering is letting go – teaching our birds to spread their wings and fly away from the nest, strong and independent enough to build nests of their own. But I miss life with you, I do.
I miss the clutter of clothes in all the wrong places, rock music at decibels that shook windows, Tonka cars turned into hammers and music makers creating new scars and dents on anything and everything that meant something to me, stepping over teen bodies with new faces and sleeping forms. Strangers in our house on Saturday mornings. I miss it all. I just want you to know that.
My journey began before you came.
I didn’t know part of the way you were to walk with me.
I traveled unknowingly seeking roads along the way looking for that perfect life an Eden where we could stay.
Sometimes the way was unclear.
We often journeyed in darkness misguided by my ignorance complicated by my innocence.
I have taken you places you may have never been had destiny not chosen you to travel along with me.
Your journey will take its own course, and as was meant to be
I will continue along my paths guided by my choices yet unknown to me.
Take my hand and bid farewell our paths to cross now and then.
Each journey’s day I feel blessed it was meant to be, part of the way you were to walk with me.
Love,
Mother
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