05/28/2026
Mom,
I still look for you in the quiet moments.
Not when everything is loud and busy…
but in the stillness—
when the world softens
and my thoughts finally slow down enough
to feel what’s missing.
It’s in those moments
that I almost expect to find you there.
In a memory.
In a feeling.
In something small that reminds me of you.
And sometimes…
it feels like I do.
Like you’re not as far away
as the world says you are.
Like your love still lingers
in the spaces you once filled.
Because the truth is…
I never really stopped needing you.
I just learned how to carry that need
in a quieter way.
And even now,
through everything life brings…
I carry your love with me.
Not as something I lost—
but as something that never left