February 14, 2006

Mom and Dad

If you are reading this, I am thinking of you...
and how I could not be without you as you have given me everything.
You have given me the initiative to be the person I am today.
The strength and creativity and endless possibility.
There is not another way for me to exist, as I am you.
Genes and pieces of history,
mud and toads, and screaming, and crying, motion and sickness...
health as in marriage.
You will always be with me.

And though we cannot trade the past.
And though we sometimes wish to forget...
there is so much I am glad to have known, of you...
and to know that you know me.

These parts of life that make it seem as though there is not any reason,
as though there is only fear and loneliness have been quieted by thoughts of you.

Thank you.

Posted by jackie colburn at February 14, 2006 02:20 AM