That day has been branded when my world did stop

I experienced new meaning to that word called shock

How that womb through which I was first brought into life

has now been rendered so void having gone under the knife

While doctors and medicine had been one form of plight

living with cancer had imposed its own fright

So when her will to live seemed to be giving up the fight

My world around me began to look very blight

What words and what feelings can overcome

that moment of emptiness standing under the sun

How naked and shallow does all reality take

when your meaning for life gives you nothing but ache

What reflections would weigh, when my tears started

other than my mother before me, my mother now departed

A soul has been released from our world below

no longer to bring me her smile with her loving hello