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This is a poem my son wrote and read to me out in the rain by a lake, because that is where I had to see him. It was Labor Day weekend 2012. The picture is us under a tree to get out of the rain. I love and miss him so much!! The poem is my most favorite thing!!

THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH TO A MOTHER SO DEAR

A WOMAN SO DISTANT, YET SO UNMEASUABLY NEAR

THE HOLDER OF MY HEART, MY STRENGTH THROUGH MY FEARS

MY LIGHT IN THE DARK, MY WILL TO GO ON

THE NURTURER WHOM CARRIED ME THE WHOLE 9 MONTHS LONG

MY BOOT IN THE ASS, THE HAND WHICH HELD ME UP

THE CHANGER OF DIAPERS AND WHOM ON ME NEVER GAVE UP

FROM FETUS TO NEWBORN AND NEWBORN TO KID

AND NOW THE GROWN MAN, WHO HELPS YOU OPEN THE LIDS

YOU’VE BEEN BY MYSIDE AND GIVEN ME LIGHT

AND TAUGHT ME THE KNOWLEDGE TO PERSEVERE THROUGH THE FIGHT

AND EVEN THOUGH AT TIMES I MAY SEEM NOT TO CARE

JUST ALWAYS REMEMBER MY HEARTS ALWAYS THERE

FOR YOU ARE THE ONE, THE GIVER OF LIFE

AND MY SOUL FOUND REASON TO GIVE UP THE KNIFE

AND TO GO ON THIS JOURNEY THAT YOU’D RATHER NOT BE

IN ORDER TO FIND THE INTERNALLY LOST ME

FOR THE PAINS AND THE TROUBLES, LIFE HAD BROUGHT OUR WAY

TOOK MY TENDERNESS AND JOY AND WASHED IT AWAY

AND SMOTHERED IT ALL IN WRATH AND CONFUSION

BUT YOUR ETERNAL LOVE HELPED DISSOLVE THAT ILLUSION

AND BROUGHT BACK A LIGHT SO BRIGHT AND EMENSE

THAT ALL MY DESPAIR NO LONGER MADE SENSE

FOR ALL THING IN LIFE DO HAPPEN FOR A REASON

EVEN IF IT IS AN UNTIMELY SEASON

BECAUSE WITH THE BAD COMES THE GOOD AND THE GOOD WITH THE BAD

AS IN LOVE COMES WITH LOSS AND HAPPY COMES WITH SAD

SO IN SAYING THIS FORGIVE YOURSELF AT LAST

FOR IT WAS GOD’S PURPOSE AS THAT BEING OUR PAST

SO LET’S LEARN FROM OUR STRUGGLES AND LET THE LOVE FLOW WITHIN

FOR NOW THE STRONG RISE AND RISE STRONGER AGAIN

SO TO THAT I WANT TO THANK YOU AND SAY I LOVE YOU LIKE NO OTHER

FOR YOU ARE THIS MANS ONE AND ONLY MOTHER

LOVE ALWAYS

BY TRAVIS ROBERT MILLS

8/30/2012