It remains because it can't imagine disappearing
It remains because it can't envision retreating
Reeling
It remains because it is needed
It remains because it is undefeated
Seated
It remains because it cannot stay standing
It remains because it stuck the landing
Staggering
It remains because it is forever devoted
It remains because the loved ones voted
Racked
It remains shipwrecked, frayed and floating
It remains shook on sea safely clasping
Depending
It remained because I demanded, existed, resisted
It remained because it can't imagine disappearing
It remained because it can't envision retreating
Balancing on a tightrope which the status quo
Strung between two cliffs not expecting
Anyone like me to traverse it and remain
Carrying, loving, creating burdened and burnished
Using my mother's love as a balance stick
And my inner grit to stop me slipping
Into the cavern of desolation that
Remains below receding beneath
Every
Single
Remaining
Frightened
Step
It remains because it can do not other
It remains because I remain
A mother.
