Mama Said Life is like a Box of Chocolates

Xiomara Perez
Mama Said Life is like a Box of Chocolates
I’m a lover not a fighter but I will fight for what I love. Love is just a word until someone you meet gives it meaning. Never regret anything that once made you smile. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give and if I could chose to keep one thing forever in the whole entire universe hands down with no hesitation it would be you, Mama.
Mama, you turned a baby into a lady, mama all you had to offer was a promise of a lifetime of love. There is no other love like a mother’s love. You raise me up so I could stand on a mountain you raise me up to walk on stormy seas, I am strong, when I am on your shoulders. You raised me up to more than I can be. You worked late nights just to keep on the lights and to put food on the table. Old man winters gave me a cold, you fixed me up something that was good for my soul, famously homemade chicken noodle soup. It just wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t have you by my side. You taught me everything I know and everything you’ve given me. You’ll always be the girl in my life for all times.
My mama told me go to school, get your doctorate, something to fall back on, you could profit with but still supported me when I did the opposite. She use to be my only enemy and never let me be free, catching me in places that I knew I shouldn’t been, every other day I crossed the line I didn’t mean to be so bad I never thought you would become the friend I never had. But mama you could only be young once how strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact it is the only time it is for them. Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart. Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath but I didn’t know why you were misunderstood. So now I see through your eyes all that you did was love me.
Now, that I am a mother, I realized you were my strength when I was weak. You were my voice when I couldn't speak. You were my eyes when I couldn't see. You saw the best there was in me. Lifted me up when I couldn't reach. You gave me faith 'cause you believed, I'm everything I am because you loved me. You are my heroine. I will always be there for you, I promise.
But I know a love so complete someday must leave, must say goodbye, it’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday. Goodbye’s the saddest word I’ll ever hear. Goodbye’s the last time I will hold you near. Someday you’ll say that word and I will cry. It’ll break my heart to hear you say goodbye.