<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358304" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Mother's Keeper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Drowning in the abyss of depression<br>Profound beyond comprehension-<br>Alone in her plight<br>As a barren tree alone in the forest<br>Fallen by the wind on a stormy summer’s night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There she lay upon her bed<br>Frighteningly silent and still<br>Her sobs were vigilantly quiet, <br>Though I could hear her tears screaming<br>Echoing within the confinement of my mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lay still, her mouth open, <br>Though she didn’t speak-<br>Although the expression on her face<br>Spoke to me as terrifying and hopeless-<br>Upon the queen-sized bed<br>Her spirit, dying, her soul tortured and evaded-<br>There lay my mother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ordered not to leave this room, <br>And to follow her if she rose from her suicidal state<br>To stop her if she made any attempt to take her life-<br>I was her nurse and assigned to be her keeper-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a beautiful afternoon in early May<br>I could hear the chorus of a nightingale outside the window, <br>If I were to turn to look out this window just to see<br>Cherry trees blossoming on this spring like day-<br>If my mother were to die if I were to leave this room or simply <br>Turn my head to admire the mystical beauty of the spring-<br>I would be held responsible-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I feel not only my mother’s agony, But my own as well, <br>Tears are welling up inside of my eyes-<br>Reddened and bloodshot from last night’s sobbing-<br>Life has been unfair to my mother but<br>I feel also that God has slighted me-<br>For I was assigned by my own father to be my mother’s keeper-<br>I felt a fatefully horrific pain nearly strangling me-<br>Truth and fear being beyond belief, as<br>I was only twelve years old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claudia+Krizay">Claudia Krizay</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358304" data-title="My Mother's Keeper de Claudia Krizay" data-description="Drowning in the abyss of depression Profound beyond comprehension- Alone in her plight As a barren tree alone in the forest Fallen by the wind on a stormy summer’s night. There she lay upon her bed Frighteningly silent and still Her sobs were v..."></div> </div> </div>

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