mother

you ask if i remember
i do, i remember the day and year i lost the woman who carried me in her body and birthed me into this world
i barely remember her looks
but i know she was more beautiful than all the stars in the night sky
i barely remember her voice
a voice that soothed my tears and my fears
i barely remember the memories I am supposed to have
as she took me everywhere she went and taught me things i do not remember.
but i remember the day
when an ugly and monstrous thing called cancer
ripped away my mother from me
and launched into a life
where she didn’t exist