I never meant when I came here

for my feet to be set into concrete--

I hope that you will soon come to understand what that means.

I hope that you will be always aware that

when you come to what seems an end

the higher man within your heart demands you

muster whatever means of change you can

to move the world as it sits upon your shoulders

if only to find the relief of a shift in position--

if only to foist gravity to some part of your body

that, though under strain, is not exhausted.

I hope you always know that above all things I am

to you, I want to be an example of these things.

I know that you are intelligent enough to understand

that unspoken contracts between loved ones are never

written in stone, for stones are only made to be broken--

 

I love you, and I am always your mother,

no matter how far.