Accidental Poet

Marathon Hearts

Marathon Hearts

It’s a battle of endurance

Between two runners inside my heart

One is Patience the other is Strength

Patience of the pain

Against the Strength to survive

Will one outlast the other?

For two years this marathon

Has been taxing my heart

From the day I learned

Of my Mother’s passing

Through the gates of Heaven

A lesson of Rainbow Love

Unconditional and everlasting

I am very happy to now have her in my life

So much love between Heaven and Earth

I know we both wish we could have shared

All this love while she was physically here

A year ago I wrote of

“The Rainbow After The Rain”

I thought the tears would fall no more

How wrong I was as they still sometimes reach the floor

The pain just waits with Patience

Sometimes my Strength so weak

I think no more can I take

But then I know I can’t give up

For if I did, my Mother’s smile would surely be gone

So down deeper into my heart

I find more Strength to survive

It’s my Mother’s Strength helping me to stand tall

Just when Patience thinks it’s winning

Strength pulls ahead to take the lead

And through another day my heart lives

But this I can’t decide which is worse

Losing a Mother so close always there in your life

Or losing a Mother so close you’ve never known

In Patience there is so much pain

But in Strength there is more than enough love to survive

For this Strength comes from a Heaven so deep inside

She knew this test of endurance since my birth

The Strength that kept her going all her life

Lives on still today

Shared between Mother and Son

Of Marathon Hearts