Tears run down my face
not of happiness, but sorrow
My mother died today
she won't see tomorrow

It all happened so fast
sitting in her hospital room
A cold March night
filled with so much gloom

I know that she won't make it
and I prepared for this day
Yet no one can ever be ready
to watch a loved one pass away

Her breathing is shallow
her lungs no longer exist
for they have been consumed
by a metasticized cyst

In a drug induced coma
she can no longer respond
I gently brush her hair
and urge her to hang on

She gave up long ago
so tired of the pain
she came to peace with GOD
and she is now HIS to claim

And yet she hung on
the reason I now know
to make sure her children were ok
before she had to go

I laid in her room on the couch
to rest my eyes so brief
My heart was filled with joy
from a visitor in my sleep

She looked so very beautiful
and we decided to have breakfast
The restaurant was so crowded
and she began to grow restless

I tried to talk awhile
but she said it was her time
I begged for her to stay with me
a little longer in line

But she was oh so tired
and she reached for my hand
She said "I'll always love you-
until we meet again"

I awoke from my sleep
and focused on the clock
It was 2 am that day
when her breathing finally stopped

My heart felt very heavy
and pain filled my head
The time had come
and my mother was now dead

There was so much I wanted to say
so much I wanted to do
Tears slowly filled my eyes
there was nothing I could do

My life would never be the same
I wouldn't hear her voice
She raised me to be strong
and so I had no choice

My life gradually moved on
and I began to heal
She sometimes visits my dreams
and it all seems so real

She watches over me-
she's with me everyday
I talk to her often
everytime I kneel to pray

Now tears run down my face
of happiness, not sorrow
My mother died three years ago
In me she lives- forever my tomorrow