Bittersweet is the mother unforgotten
The care she once gave,
necessity in return
All she once taught
has left her in stray

Unending love overlooks a horizon
a terminal line that
will always evade

A child now cares,
worries, and wonders
how to move on from
the grief of the loving

The mother once known
is already dead and gone,
but she sits here in breath
henceforth to depend