WITHOUT MOTHER

Mother's Day In Portugal..

A little poetic prose for those without..

WITHOUT MOTHER

Mother’s Day is not gentle for everyone.

For some, it brings flowers.

For others, it brings absence.

A mother missed.

A relationship that never felt safe.

Distance. Silence. Complicated love.

Not every story fits a card.

So today, if your mother is missing,

through death, estrangement, or something harder to name,

Be gentle with yourself.

You don’t have to celebrate.

You don’t have to explain.

You can remember, or not.

Feel everything, or nothing at all.

And if there was no mothering to receive, may you find it in unexpected places…or offer it, tenderly, to yourself.

There is space for your story here too.

Sally Somerton - Island Writer

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