Your birthday last Christmas Eve was not forgotten
It has not been missing from our lives for the last 43 years
It is amazing how mom still sees her son come home one day
She is so hopeful
So patient
So faithful
The emptiness
that anxious feeling in one's gut when there is nothing you can do
Nothing you can say
the overwhelming sense of helplessness
is where missing is what missing does
Missing from our daily lives
missing from new memories
missing is what missing does
