She left 

No goodbye said

She was too young

To remember

Just bits and pieces  

No photographs of her

Fantasized

Daydreamed

About the mother

She barely knew

Every day she felt

Emptiness

Sadness

Sorrow

Part of her missing

Blaming herself

Believing she was the reason

Her mother left

She cried every day

Thinking somehow 

That would make

Her mother come back

Wishful thinking

She never came back

She vowed never

To forgive her mother

The truth was told

Many years later

Too little too late 

Wasted time

Mother and daughter

Two strangers

Never bonded

Nothing in common 

A new relationship

Felt forced somehow

She didn’t fit

Into her new life

With her mother

They clashed

At every turn

She left home

For a new start

On her own

Never looked back

No regrets

Until that horrible day

Her mother was gone

So young

So sudden

Never got to 

Say goodbye

Regrets

Sorrow

Lost

Broken

Never had a chance 

To tell her mother

She forgave her

By J. Robbins-Clacema