One Step Closer: A Home For Our Heart

Her lips quivered, “All along…all along, I believed I would find you.” I laughed because she did. When no one else believed I existed, when I couldn’t be found, she knew she would find me. She never gave up. Many did, but not this Little One – not even for a second.

To My Deceased Mother: Our Bond Has Never Been Stronger

Like a vampire, she had been immortalized at 30, frozen in time as a young woman shown in pictures I rarely got to see. Now, in this world in my head, she would age. Her hair would change with the decades, her face would develop laugh lines and eye crinkle indentations.