Mum, Amazon Crescent, Kitwe, Zambia, 1972.
Today would have been my dear old Mum’s 84th birthday. I wish I could give her a hug, like I do in my dreams. It’s also the anniversary of my husband first finding my name on the net in 2002 (after 28 years apart) then that hug and a promise to explore the possibilities of love, again.
I think it was Mum’s way of hugging me… bringing my love back to me.
Taken in 2002, the day after he flew to Perth from Ireland via South Africa, to hug me.
My Knight
In the afternoon of my life,
settled,
content and comfortable
in my alone-ness
you question me!
You destroy
my strong defenses,
obliterate
my sense and reason
to let you in!
For my heart,
bow wave of confusion,
tense terror times
of doubt and fear
~ unknown ~
risk everything,
my ordered now!
The colours of my life
changing to a
different hue…
You terrify me!
Wanting – needing
arms that enclose
a broken heart…
Make it whole again!
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2002
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